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MODEL — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 landed on September 1. They are the same underlying model; only the strength of the safeguards differsPRICING — Per-token rates hold at $10/$50 per MTok. What changed is cache reads, cut 75% to $0.25 per MTokCOST — How much that saves depends on your workload: roughly 25% for typical use, up to about 45% for context-heavy agentic work. Worth measuring your own split before quoting a numberBENCH — Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 climbs from 24.7% on Fable 5 to 52.6%. Anthropic also states a standard error of 3.5-4.5 points, which is worth remembering before reading small gaps as realSAFEGUARDS — Sharper cyber safeguards cut interventions in Claude Code sessions by roughly 60% on average. Finding vulnerabilities is now allowed; developing exploits still is notAPI — New API accounts created from today can no longer edit prior context while preserving Claude's thinking transcript. It is an anti-distillation measure, and existing accounts are unaffected for nowMODEL — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 landed on September 1. They are the same underlying model; only the strength of the safeguards differsPRICING — Per-token rates hold at $10/$50 per MTok. What changed is cache reads, cut 75% to $0.25 per MTokCOST — How much that saves depends on your workload: roughly 25% for typical use, up to about 45% for context-heavy agentic work. Worth measuring your own split before quoting a numberBENCH — Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 climbs from 24.7% on Fable 5 to 52.6%. Anthropic also states a standard error of 3.5-4.5 points, which is worth remembering before reading small gaps as realSAFEGUARDS — Sharper cyber safeguards cut interventions in Claude Code sessions by roughly 60% on average. Finding vulnerabilities is now allowed; developing exploits still is notAPI — New API accounts created from today can no longer edit prior context while preserving Claude's thinking transcript. It is an anti-distillation measure, and existing accounts are unaffected for now
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API & SDK/2026-06-13Advanced

Claude Vision API in Production — Implementation Patterns for Image Analysis, PDF Processing, and OCR

Implementation patterns for taking Claude's vision capabilities to production: choosing between Base64, URL, and the Files API, native PDF processing, schema-enforced extraction with Tool Use, batch cost reduction, and error recovery — all with working code.

API & SDK/2026-03-30Beginner

Claude API Pricing Guide 2026 — Complete Cost Breakdown for Every Model, Batch API, and Prompt Caching

A complete guide to Claude API pricing in 2026. Learn the per-token costs for Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5, how to save up to 95% with Batch API and Prompt Caching, and see real-world cost estimates for common use cases.