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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/2026-04-30Intermediate

Fix Claude API's 'messages.X.role must alternate' in One Minute — Common 400 invalid_request_error Patterns

A pattern-by-pattern guide to fixing the 'messages.X.role must alternate' error in Claude's Messages API — covering user/assistant alternation, tool_use and tool_result pairing, and history-trimming pitfalls with working code.