Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 on 9 November, with faster output, higher coding scores and a lower developer price. In Malaysia, the listed price depends on where you look: Claude Max is RM599.90 a month on the Malaysian App Store, against a US$100 list price on Anthropic's own site that works out to about RM405 before tax.
Quick facts
- New models: Claude Fable 5.2 across paid plans, under different terms per plan, and Claude Mythos 5.2, the same underlying model, for vetted organisations only.
- Who gets Fable 5.2: not on the free plan. Max and Ultra get it for up to 50% of their weekly limits; Pro users pay for it with usage credits.
- Malaysian App Store prices: Pro RM99.90 a month, Max RM599.90, Ultra RM1,199.90, Pro annual RM999.90.
- Developer price: US$8 per million input tokens and US$40 per million output tokens, down from US$10 and US$50 on Fable 5.1.
What Claude costs in Malaysia
We read the in-app purchase list on the Claude app's Malaysian App Store page on 10 November. Pro is RM99.90 a month or RM999.90 a year, Max is RM599.90 a month and Ultra is RM1,199.90 a month. The same page sells usage credit packs, from RM99.90 for 20 credits to RM2,999.90 for 1,000.
Anthropic's pricing page lists the same plans in US dollars: Pro at US$20 a month billed monthly, Max at US$100 and Ultra at US$200, and it says those prices exclude tax. At Bank Negara Malaysia's 12pm middle rate on 10 November, RM4.0545 to the dollar, that is about RM81.09 for Pro, RM405.45 for Max and RM810.90 for Ultra.
The two prices are not set on the same tax basis. Anthropic says its web prices exclude tax. Apple told developers in 2020 that when Malaysia introduced its tax on digital services, App Store prices here would not change and developers' proceeds would be adjusted instead. The Royal Malaysian Customs Department has set that tax at 8% since 1 March 2024.
We have not completed a Malaysian web checkout to see whether Anthropic adds the tax. If it does not, the App Store lists Max and Ultra about 48% above the web price, and Pro about 23% above. If it adds 8%, the web price becomes about RM437.89 for Max and RM875.77 for Ultra, and the App Store still lists both about 37% higher, a gap of around RM162 and RM324 a month. Pro would list about 14% higher, around RM12.
What is new in Fable 5.2
In its announcement, Anthropic says Fable 5.2 improves on coding, reasoning and vision, generates output up to 30% faster than Fable 5.1, and has an optional fast mode that speeds up text generation by up to 2.5 times. It also says that in its early testing, its safety filters produced about 55% fewer blocks than on Fable 5.1.
On FrontierSWE v2, one of the coding tests in Anthropic's own table, Fable 5.2 scored 69.9%, against 65.5% for OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, 62.3% for Claude Opus 5.5, 61.2% for Google's Gemini 4 Carbon and 56.3% for Fable 5.1. These are Anthropic's published figures, not our own tests, and Anthropic says it ran each model at its highest available effort setting, which may not mean the same amount of computing for every model.
Anthropic also showed Fable 5.2 controlling physical robots, including tasks it says the model was never trained on, such as solving a puzzle cube and unscrewing a bottle cap.
Who can use it
Fable 5.2 is not on the free plan. According to Anthropic's pricing page, Max, Ultra and Team premium seats can spend up to 50% of their weekly limits on it, Enterprise plans get it, and Pro users pay for it with usage credits. For launch week, Anthropic says eligible paid plans also get extra Fable usage, including up to 50% of weekly limits for Pro.
Claude Mythos 5.2 is not sold to consumers. Anthropic says it goes to vetted organisations in its cyber security and life sciences verification programmes.
The Claude app on the Malaysian App Store lists English and 33 other languages. Indonesian is among them; Malay is not.
For developers
According to Anthropic's API pricing, Fable 5.2 costs US$8 per million input tokens and US$40 per million output tokens, down from US$10 and US$50 on Fable 5.1. That is about RM32.44 and RM162.18 at the same Bank Negara rate. Fast mode costs twice as much, and batch jobs cost half. Anthropic says the model is also available through Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
We have compared ringgit prices for AI tools before, including Google's Vids video model and Apple Creator Studio. In-app prices on the App Store can change, so check the listing before you subscribe.
