Claude Fable 5.1 is good. These would like a word anyway.
Claude Fable 5.1 is a direct update to Fable 5, with its largest gains in agent coding, long-running workflows and knowledge work. Anthropic calls out long refactors, front-end generation, finance and analysis, with shorter plans and summaries than Fable 5.
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fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"anthropic/claude-fable-5.1" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
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