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Claude Fable model by Anthropic
An earlier Claude Fable release for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work.
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Ranked against the 40 current releases on this chart, Claude Fable 5 ranks third of 31 on Factuality, 4th of 39 on Hard reasoning and 4th of 38 on Code. Instruction following is Artificial Analysis's run on IFBench, marked on the chart. It ranks lowest on Science, 24th of 25 and Answers in full, 19th of 26. Computer use and Multimodal: not yet published by Anthropic or any independent evaluator, checked Nov 2, 2026.
Each axis is one public benchmark at one setting, on its own fixed 0 to 100 scale, so adding a model never moves another. A dotted bridge crosses a missing result, which is never a zero. A hollow mark is a result from another source: the maker's own figure or another lab's run, where the benchmark's usual source has not tested the model yet. The readout names it.
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Prices and speeds read between Oct 26, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026.
Claude Fable 5 on each axis10 of 12 with a result
The share of Terminal-Bench 4.0's long terminal tasks the model finishes on its own: services, kernels, proofs and data pipelines, graded on the final artifact with no partial credit.
Terminal-Bench 4.0, pass@1 averaged over 3 runs, mini-swe-agent harness
The share of SciCode's scientific programming subproblems the model's code solves on the first attempt.
SciCode, subproblem accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run
The share of FrontierMath's held-out research-grade problems (tiers 1 to 3) the model answers correctly.
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3, accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run
The share of GPQA Diamond's graduate-level biology, chemistry and physics questions the model answers correctly.
GPQA Diamond, accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run
The share of Humanity's Last Exam's 2,158 text-only questions, expert-written at the edge of human knowledge, the model answers correctly without tools.
Humanity's Last Exam, accuracy, text-only questions, no tools
The share of each AutomationBench task's objectives the model completes by calling REST APIs across simulated business apps (Gmail, Sheets, Slack, Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, HubSpot), averaged over tasks. A task that breaks one of its policy guardrails scores zero.
AutomationBench-AA, score, Artificial Analysis run
How much of each OSWorld 2.1 workflow the model completes by operating a real Ubuntu desktop through screenshots, mouse and keyboard: all 108 long tasks across apps, files, mail and browsers, on the September 2026 v2.1 release of the task files. A point is the mean share of each task's weighted checks the model passes (the partial score, as a percentage). The OSWorld team's own runs come first. Where the team has not run a release, the point is another lab's run or the maker's own published figure, marked with who ran it and the benchmark it ran: OSWorld 2.1 in the maker's harness, OSWorld 2.0's offline set or the earlier OSWorld-Verified. Those points are drawn so the release has a figure, and they are not ranked against the team's runs.
OSWorld 2.1, partial score, full 108-task set, v2.1 release
The share of AA-LCR's questions the model answers correctly by reasoning across long sets of real documents, about 100K tokens each.
AA-LCR v1.1, accuracy, Artificial Analysis run
The share of MMMU-Pro's college-level questions over charts, diagrams and photos the model answers correctly.
MMMU-Pro, overall accuracy, no tools
The share of AA-Omniscience's 6,000 knowledge questions across 42 economically relevant topics the model answers correctly from memory, without search.
AA-Omniscience Accuracy, accuracy, Artificial Analysis run
The share of SpeechMap's 2,120 sensitive and controversial but legal requests the model answers in full: arguments, essays and explanations on contested themes in politics, religion, race, sex, history and similar topics, four wordings per theme across 530 themes. SpeechMap's judge rates each response complete, evasive (hedged or redirected), a denial, or an error (the provider's API blocked the request). Only complete answers count, so the point is the share answered in full: 100 minus the share hedged, refused or blocked by the provider. Higher means more lawful requests answered in full. The share blocked at the provider is printed apart in the table, because an API error is not the model declining. Where SpeechMap runs a release both with reasoning off and with reasoning on (a -reasoning or -thinking entry), the reasoning-on entry is used; a release with one entry uses that entry.
SpeechMap, % Complete over 2,120 contested requests, reasoning-on entry
The share of MultiChallenge's multi-turn conversations in which the model keeps every instruction it was given earlier in the conversation.
MultiChallenge, accuracy, Scale AI run. Where it has no run of a model, the maker's own figure or another lab's run stands in, marked with its benchmark.
Cost, speed, capacity, quality and accuracy for Claude Fable 5, with where each figure sits among the 41 models GILD tracks. These measures stand beside the chart and never feed it.
$8.75per task
Cost per task. One Intelligence Index task at list price, every token counted. Run at max effort.
67tokens a second
Output speed. How fast it writes once the answer starts. Run at max effort.
1Mtokens
Context window. The most one request can hold, as the maker states it.
49.6of 100
Intelligence Index. One composite score across independent evaluations. Run at max effort.
63.6%wrong when it should say “I don’t know”
Hallucination rate. Of the questions it can't get right, how often it answers anyway. Lower is better. Run at max effort.
14of 19 routes
Routes offering it. Of the clouds, gateways and coding products GILD tracks, those offering it today.
Figures from Artificial Analysis, Anthropic, Epoch AI and GILD's route matrix, read Oct 26 to Nov 1, 2026. Each measure's definition and source open under . Not yet published for Claude Fable 5: Cached input and Max output.
| Axis | Benchmark and setting | Claude Fable 5 | Run | Source | Date |
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| Agentic coding | Terminal-Bench 4.0Pass@1 averaged over 3 runs, mini-swe-agent harness | 41.4% | Claude Fable 5Effort: not published. Harness: mini-swe-agent. | Vals.ai | Oct 24, 2026 |
| Code | SciCodeSubproblem accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run. Artificial Analysis tested Fable 5 with its Opus 4.8 fallback switched on, the setup its model page lists. | 61% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback)Effort: max. Harness: none.Run as Anthropic serves it by default: requests its safeguards stop are answered by Claude Opus 4.8. | Artificial Analysis | Oct 28, 2026 |
| Math | FrontierMath Tiers 1-3Accuracy, pass@1, highest effort run | 87% | Effort: max. Harness: none. | Epoch AI | Jun 9, 2026 |
| Science | GPQA DiamondAccuracy, pass@1, highest effort run | 85.9% | Effort: max. Harness: none. | Epoch AI | Jun 9, 2026 |
| Hard reasoning | Humanity's Last ExamAccuracy, text-only questions, no tools. Artificial Analysis tested Fable 5 with its Opus 4.8 fallback switched on, the setup its model page lists. | 55.5% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback)Effort: max. Harness: none.Run as Anthropic serves it by default: requests its safeguards stop are answered by Claude Opus 4.8. | Artificial Analysis | Oct 28, 2026 |
| Tool use | AutomationBench-AAScore, Artificial Analysis run. Artificial Analysis tested Fable 5 with its Opus 4.8 fallback switched on, the setup its model page lists. | 54.1% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback)Effort: max. Harness: Artificial Analysis AutomationBench harness.Run as Anthropic serves it by default: requests its safeguards stop are answered by Claude Opus 4.8. | Artificial Analysis | Oct 28, 2026 |
| Computer use | OSWorld 2.1Partial score, full 108-task set, v2.1 release | Not yet published by Anthropic or any independent evaluator, checked Nov 2, 2026 | |||
| Long context | AA-LCR v1.1Accuracy, Artificial Analysis run. Artificial Analysis tested Fable 5 with its Opus 4.8 fallback switched on, the setup its model page lists. | 82.3% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback)Effort: max. Harness: none.Run as Anthropic serves it by default: requests its safeguards stop are answered by Claude Opus 4.8. | Artificial Analysis | Oct 28, 2026 |
| Multimodal | MMMU-ProOverall accuracy, no tools | Not yet published by Anthropic or any independent evaluator, checked Nov 2, 2026 | |||
| Factuality | AA-Omniscience AccuracyAccuracy, Artificial Analysis run. Artificial Analysis tested Fable 5 with its Opus 4.8 fallback switched on, the setup its model page lists. | 65.4%Hallucination rate 63.6% in the same run (lower is better) | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback)Effort: max. Harness: none.Run as Anthropic serves it by default: requests its safeguards stop are answered by Claude Opus 4.8. | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Answers in full | SpeechMap% Complete over 2,120 contested requests, reasoning-on entry. With reasoning on, SpeechMap counted 27.9% of requests denied and 5.0% evaded. Another 2.4% failed at the provider and count against the score. | 64.8%2.4% of requests failed at the provider and count against it | Effort: reasoning on. Harness: none. | SpeechMap.AI | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Instruction following | IFBenchAccuracy, Artificial Analysis IFBench run. Artificial Analysis ran Claude Fable 5 at max effort in its own evaluation harness. The run routes some requests to Opus 4.8 as a fallback.Stands in for MultiChallenge, accuracy, Scale AI run, which has no run of Claude Fable 5 yet. | 63.5% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback)Effort: max. Harness: none. | Artificial AnalysisRun by Artificial Analysis | Oct 28, 2026 |
57 models. A maker's own figure and another lab's run are marked with their benchmark; a missing result reads "Not yet published", never zero.
| Model | Agentic coding | Code | Math | Science | Hard reasoning | Tool use | Computer use | Long context | Multimodal | Factuality | Answers in full | Instructions |
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| Claude Fable 5 | 41.4% | 61% | 87% | 85.9% | 55.5% | 54.1% | Not yet published | 82.3% | Not yet published | 65.4% | 64.8% | 63.5%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Claude Haiku 5.5 | 36.4% | 55% | 75.1% | 89.6% | 44.4% | 35.4% | 72.4%Reported by AnthropicOSWorld 2.1 | 82.7% | Not yet published | 34.7% | 78.8% | 67.7% |
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| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 64.1% | 61% | 88.8% | 95.6% | 55% | 71.8% | 80.1%Reported by Anthropic | 82.7% | Not yet published | 51.5% | 81.6% | Not yet published |
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| Claude Opus 5.5 | 65.2% | 66.9% | 91.2% | 90.6% | 61.4% | 69.5% | 81.8%Reported by Anthropic | 84.7% | 87.7% | 65.5% | 82.8% | Not yet published |
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| Claude Fable 5.1 | 58.1% | 63.1% | 90.2% | 93.4%Run by Vals.ai | 59.1% | 59.4% | 80.7%Reported by Anthropic | 85.3% | 86.3%Run by Moonshot AI | 68.4% | 72.4% | Not yet published |
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| Claude Opus 5 | 53.5% | 56.4% | 85.6% | 93.9% | 54.9% | 56.6% | 77.7% | 79.3% | 84.7% | 60.9% | 73.7% | Not yet published |
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| Claude Sonnet 5 | 10.6% | 54.3% | 65.6% | 80.3% | 41.3% | 36.5% | 57%Reported by Anthropic | 82% | 77.3% | 40.1% | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| Claude Opus 4.8 | 23.2% | 54.4% | 80% | 91% | 48.7% | 45.6% | 54.8%Run by OSWorld teamOSWorld 2.0 | 77.7% | Not yet published | 48.8% | 67.4% | 62.2%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Claude Opus 4.7 | Not yet published | 54.5% | 70.2% | 86.4% | 42.3% | Not yet published | 48.9%Run by OSWorld teamOSWorld 2.0 | 78.7% | 78.8% | 48.9% | 70.2% | 58.6%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 3%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 50.1% | 71.1%Run by Epoch AIOTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 78.8% | 33.6% | 20.1% | 41.5%Run by OSWorld teamOSWorld 2.0 | 80% | 73.3% | 40.9% | 35.8% | 56.6%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Claude Opus 4.6 | Not yet published | Not yet published | 66% | 88.4% | 39.9% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 78% | 75.4% | 47% | 59.9% | 37.2% |
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| Claude Opus 4.5 | Not yet published | Not yet published | 34.4% | 86% | 30.1% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 77.3% | 74% | 46.6% | 57.5% | 59% |
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| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Not yet published | 42.2% | 66.7%Run by Epoch AIOTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.2% | 10.4% | 3.2% | Not yet published | 74.3% | 58.6% | 18% | 24.7% | 50.5% |
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| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Not yet published | 45.7% | 23.9% | 82.3% | 17.8% | 14.1% | Not yet published | 72.3% | 68.7% | 32.9% | 31.4% | 55.3% |
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| GPT-6.1 Terra | 49.5% | 55.1% | 90.9% | 94.3% | 46.2% | 60.2% | 74.2%Reported by OpenAIOSWorld 2.1 | 82.7% | 84.7% | 47.6% | Not yet published | 74.2% |
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| GPT-6.1 Sol | 55.1% | 54.2% | 93.7% | 95.4% | 52.9% | 64.9% | 78%Reported by OpenAIOSWorld 2.1 | 83% | 86% | 61.8% | 69.5% | 82% |
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| GPT-6 Luna | 13.6% | 54.6% | 78.9% | 90.5% | 38.5% | 53.2% | 48.9%Run by AnthropicOSWorld 2.1 | 83.3% | 79.7% | 39.6% | 63.4% | Not yet published |
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| GPT-6 Astra | 59.6% | 56.5% | 93.7% | 95.8% | 54.7% | 68.5% | 75.8%Run by Meta | 80.7% | 86.9% | 61.6% | 68.2% | Not yet published |
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| GPT-5.6 Sol | 37.9% | 57.1% | 89.1% | 93.5% | 49.5% | 60.1% | 62.7%Run by OSWorld teamOSWorld 2.0 | 84% | 83.4% | 69.7%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | Not yet published | 72.7%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| GPT-5.6 Terra | 22.7% | 55% | 86% | 93.3% | 42.9% | 59.6% | Not yet published | 83% | 80.7% | 42.3% | Not yet published | 71.2%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| GPT-5.6 Luna | 11.6% | 53.6% | 82.1% | 91.6% | 39.5% | 50.2% | Not yet published | 83.7% | 78.6% | 41%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| GPT-5.5 | 14.6%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 55.8% | 85.3% | 93.5%Run by Artificial Analysis | 45.8% | 47.3% | 49.5%Run by OSWorld teamOSWorld 2.0 | 84.3% | 79.9% | 63%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | Not yet published | 75.9%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| GPT-5.4 | Not yet published | Not yet published | 78.6% | 93.3% | 43.7% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 82% | 78.4% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 73.9%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| gpt-oss-120b | 14.2%Run by Terminal-Bench (via Epoch AI)Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 34% | 88.9%Run by Epoch AIOTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 75.8% | 19.6% | 0.2% | Not yet published | 52% | Not yet published | 16.8%Reported by OpenAISimpleQA | 36.3% | 45.3% |
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| GPT-6 Sol | 44.4% | 57.6% | 89.8% | 94.3% | 47.9% | 61.6% | 64.4%Reported by OpenAIOSWorld 2.0 | 83.7% | 82.9% | 54.5% | 64% | Not yet published |
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| GPT-5.3-Codex | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | 91.5%Run by Artificial Analysis | 42.5% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 83.3% | 78.5% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 75.4%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Gemini 4 Argon | 57.6% | 61.8% | 86% | 96.4% | 57.1% | 77.5% | 69.2%Reported by GoogleOSWorld 2.0 | 79.7% | Not yet published | 48.3% | 87% | 78.7% |
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| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 19.7% | 56.6% | 68.4% | 95.4% | 47.8% | 59.9% | 59%Reported by GoogleOSWorld 2.0 | 81.3% | 85.6% | 50.5% | 86.1% | Not yet published |
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| Gemma 4 31B | Not yet published | 45.5% | Not yet published | 85.7%Run by Artificial AnalysisGPQA Diamond | 23.6% | 4.9% | Not yet published | 69.7% | 73.4% | 10.4%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | 82.3% | 75.6%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | 2.5% | 58.7% | 59.6% | 94.4% | 47% | 35.4% | Not yet published | 82% | 82.4% | 54.9% | 59.9% | 71.4% |
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| Gemini 3.6 Flash | 7.1%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 53.4% | 58.9% | 94.1% | 40.8% | 53% | 83%Reported by GoogleOSWorld-Verified | 80% | 83.2% | 66.2%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | 87.2% | Not yet published |
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| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | 31.8% | 55.9% | 71.2% | 93.2% | 43.3% | 66.6% | 69.3%Run by Moonshot AIOSWorld 2.1 | 82.7% | 80.6% | 39.6% | Not yet published | 74.9% |
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| DeepSeek V4 Pro | 14.1% | 51% | 64.6% | 91.7% | 41% | 56.7% | Not yet published | 80.3% | Not yet published | 45.2% | 72% | Not yet published |
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| Kimi K3.1 Pro | 63.6% | 60.8% | Not yet published | 94.2%Reported by Moonshot AI | 52.5% | 73.3% | 79.6%Reported by Moonshot AIOSWorld 2.1 | 86.3% | 83.9% | 48.9% | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| Kimi K3 | 17.2% | 59.5% | 72.2% | 93.1% | 46.9% | 58.3% | Not yet published | 88.7% | 80.5% | 50.6%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | 65.9% | Not yet published |
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| Kimi K2.7 Code | 1%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 47.8% | 54% | 87.9% | 35% | 24.5% | Not yet published | 79.3% | Not yet published | 36.5%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | Not yet published | 63.1%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Mistral Large 4 | 24.7%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | 57.8% | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | 26% | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| Mistral Medium 3.5 | 0%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 40.2% | Not yet published | 74.8%Run by Artificial AnalysisGPQA Diamond | 13.8% | 6.3% | Not yet published | 69.3% | 64.9% | 23% | 70.5% | 68.8%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Grok 4.7 | 28.8% | 57.4% | 53% | 92.7% | 43.1% | 65.6% | Not yet published | 76.7% | Not yet published | 42.7% | 64.1% | Not yet published |
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| Grok 4.6 | 17.2% | 56.5% | 66% | 93.2% | 42.9% | 66.7% | Not yet published | 80.3% | Not yet published | 48.9%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | 83.6% | Not yet published |
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| Grok 4.5 | 8.6% | 55% | 57.2% | 93.4% | 42.7% | 57.9% | Not yet published | 79.3% | 80.4% | 48.3%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | 93.1% | Not yet published |
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| MiniMax M3.1 Flash | 25.3% | 53.4% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 48% | 72.5% | 61.7%Reported by MiniMaxOSWorld 2.0 | 79.7% | 79.1% | 45.1% | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| Mercury 3 | 3% | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published | Not yet published |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | 37.4% | 51.6% | 55.8% | 90.2% | 39.9% | 60.4% | 59.1%Reported by Z.aiOSWorld 2.0 | 80% | 86%Run by Vals.aiMMMU-Pro | 28.2% | 65.4% | Not yet published |
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| GLM-5.3 | 38.9% | 59% | 68.8% | 90.9% | 42.3% | 62.2% | Not yet published | 79.7% | Not yet published | 32.3% | 71.5% | Not yet published |
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| GLM-5.2 | 1%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 51.2% | 59.2% | Not yet published | 41.1% | 28.4% | Not yet published | 78.3% | Not yet published | 34.2%Run by Epoch AISimpleQA Verified | Not yet published | 73.3%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Muse Spark Open | 6.6% | 58.4% | 69.8% | 88.6% | 43.9% | 49.7% | 80.4%Reported by MetaOSWorld-Verified | 78.3% | 80.9% | 42% | Not yet published | 74.2% |
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| Muse Wonder | 49.5% | 60.3% | 82.1% | Not yet published | 50.1% | 68.1% | 72.6%Reported by Meta | 80.7% | Not yet published | 38% | 42.7% | Not yet published |
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| Muse Spark 1.3 | 10.6% | 58.8% | 74% | 93.5%Run by Artificial AnalysisGPQA Diamond | 48.7% | 57.9% | 69.6% | 83% | 82% | 38% | 25.8% | Not yet published |
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| Llama 4 Scout | Not yet published | 21.3% | 7.8%Run by Epoch AIOTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 51.8% | 3.8% | 0.2% | Not yet published | 27.7% | 52.9% | Not yet published | 70.1% | 39.5%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Llama 4 Maverick | Not yet published | 31.7% | 20.6%Run by Epoch AIOTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 67% | 4.9% | 0.2% | Not yet published | 50% | 62.1% | Not yet published | 58.3% | 43%Run by Artificial AnalysisIFBench |
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| Qwen3.8 27B | 5.6%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 46.6% | Not yet published | 90.5%Run by Artificial AnalysisGPQA Diamond | 33.9% | 48.2% | 84.3%Reported by AlibabaOSWorld-Verified | 82% | 76.3% | 17.3% | Not yet published | 79.5%Reported by AlibabaIFBench |
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| Qwen3.8 Max | 38.9% | 52.1% | 65.6% | 92.3% | 43.1% | 56.2% | Not yet published | 80.3% | 82.8% | 29.5% | 65.3% | Not yet published |
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| MiMo-V2.6-Pro | 31.3% | 60.9% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 49.4% | 58.6% | 82%Reported by XiaomiOSWorld-Verified | 86.3% | Not yet published | 34.8% | 66.5% | Not yet published |
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| MiMo-V2.6-Flash | 24.2% | 51.3% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 35.1% | 64.1% | 80.8%Reported by XiaomiOSWorld-Verified | 74.3% | 73.1% | 27.2% | 66.9% | Not yet published |
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| Ling 3.1 Flash | 32.8%Run by Artificial AnalysisTerminal-Bench 4.0 | 56.8% | Not yet published | Not yet published | 43.5% | 67.5% | Not yet published | 82.3% | Not yet published | 26.5% | Not yet published | Not yet published |
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| Step 5 Preview | 31.8% | 58.9% | Not yet published | 93.5%Reported by StepFunGPQA Diamond | 46.5% | 51% | Not yet published | 88.3% | 76.4% | 36.4% | 59.7% | Not yet published |
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The other models in the grid have no result on Terminal-Bench 4.0 yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on SciCode yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on GPQA Diamond yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on Humanity's Last Exam yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on AutomationBench-AA yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on OSWorld 2.1 yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on AA-LCR v1.1 yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on MMMU-Pro yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on AA-Omniscience Accuracy yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on SpeechMap yet.
The other models in the grid have no result on MultiChallenge yet.
Cost, speed, reliability, knowledge-work and domain results for Claude Fable 5 beyond the twelve chart axes, each with the run it comes from and its publisher. These stay separate measures; none is folded into the chart.
| Measure | Claude Fable 5 | Run | Source | Read |
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| Context windowThe most tokens one request can hold, as the maker states it. Size alone says nothing about how well the model uses a long input; the Long context axis measures that. | 1M | Anthropic's pricing page: Claude 4.6 and later models, except Claude Haiku 5.5, include the full 1M token context window | Anthropic | Oct 28, 2026 |
| ReadsThe kinds of input the model accepts. | Text, Images | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 | |
| LicenceThe terms the weights or the service are offered under. | Commercial Terms of Service | Anthropic | Nov 1, 2026 | |
| Open weightsWhether the maker publishes the weights for anyone to run. | No | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 | |
| Routes offering itOf the 19 clouds, gateways and coding products GILD tracks, how many offer the release today, preview included. | 14 of 19 | GILD route matrix | Oct 28, 2026 | |
| Cost | ||||
| Answer tokens per taskLower is better. Answer tokens per Intelligence Index task, reasoning excluded. | 21,807 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Cost per task, cache readsLower is better. The cache-read share of AA's cost per Intelligence Index task. | $3.86 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Cost per task, cache writesLower is better. The cache-write share of AA's cost per Intelligence Index task. | $1.32 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Cost per task, inputLower is better. The input-token share of AA's cost per Intelligence Index task. | $5.44 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Cost per task, outputLower is better. The answer-token share of AA's cost per Intelligence Index task. | $3.31 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Cost per task, reasoningLower is better. The reasoning-token share of AA's cost per Intelligence Index task. | $2.23 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Cost per taskLower is better. What one Intelligence Index task cost AA at list price, input, cache, output and reasoning tokens together. | $8.75 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Cost to run the indexLower is better. What the whole Intelligence Index run cost AA at list price. The runs cost from tens of dollars to about $13,000, so the axis is log from $10 to $100,000. | $11,161 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Output tokens per taskLower is better. Tokens the model wrote per Intelligence Index task, reasoning included: how verbose it is. | 66,848 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Reasoning tokens per taskLower is better. Reasoning tokens per Intelligence Index task. | 45,041 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Speed | ||||
| End-to-end response timeLower is better. Seconds AA measures for a whole response on its standard prompt. | 109 s | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Time to first answer tokenLower is better. Seconds until the first answer token, after any reasoning, on AA's API runs. | 102 s | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Output speedMedian output tokens per second on AA's API runs, with the 5th and 95th percentile when AA prints them. | 67 tokens/s | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Time per taskLower is better. Wall-clock seconds per Intelligence Index task. Runs take from about 15 s to about 33 min, so the axis is log from 1 s to 10,000 s. | 626 s | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Time to first tokenLower is better. Median seconds to the first streamed chunk on AA's API runs, with the 5th and 95th percentile when AA prints them. Reasoning models spend this time thinking. | 102 s | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Reliability | ||||
| Hallucination rateLower is better. AA-Omniscience hallucination rate shows how often the model answers wrongly when it does not know and should decline. | 63.6% | Max effort | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Omniscience accuracyShare of AA-Omniscience knowledge questions answered correctly. | 65.4% | Max effort | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Omniscience indexAA-Omniscience index: correct answers minus wrong answers, declines neutral, -100 to 100. | 43.3 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| SimpleQA Verified (Epoch)Share of SimpleQA Verified factual questions answered correctly, best scorer, Epoch AI's run. A second factuality source beside AA-Omniscience. | 70.7% | Extra-high effort | Epoch AI | Aug 10, 2026 |
| Knowledge work | ||||
| AA-BriefcaseAA-Briefcase overall Elo for long business deliverables, with AA's 95% interval. | 1,537 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| AnalystAgent (AA run)AA's AnalystAgent score for analyst workflows. | 48.8% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| APEX-Agents (maintainers)APEX-Agents pass@1 from the maintainers, as Epoch AI republishes it. | 63.6% | Mercor (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 | |
| GDP-PDF (AA run)Share of GDP-PDF document tasks where every check passes. | 24% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| GDPval-AAGDPval-AA Elo: AA's run of economically valuable knowledge-work tasks, graded pairwise, with AA's interval. | 1,610 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| MLCR (AA run)AA's MLCR overall score for long, multi-document reading. | 20.6% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Vending-Bench 2Vending-Bench 2 final balance of a simulated vending business run by the model, as Epoch AI republishes it. | $4,967 | Max effort | Andon Labs (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Capability beyond the chart | ||||
| AA-LCRAA long-context reasoning accuracy. | 82.3% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| ALE-BenchALE-Bench performance rating on long optimization contests, as Epoch AI republishes it. | 2,041 | High effort | Sakana AI (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 |
| ARC-AGI-2ARC-AGI-2 score from the ARC Prize maintainers, as Epoch AI republishes it. | 89.2% | Max effort | ARC Prize Foundation (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Chess puzzles (Epoch)Share of chess puzzles solved, Epoch AI's run. | 47% | Max effort | Epoch AI | Oct 13, 2026 |
| CritPt (AA run)Share of CritPt research-level physics problems solved in AA's run. | 28.6% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| DeepSWEDeepSWE pass@1, as Epoch AI republishes it. | 69.7% | Max effort | Datacurve (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 |
| DTBenchDTBench accuracy, as Epoch AI republishes it. | 98.4% | Max effort | Redwood Research (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 |
| EnterpriseOps-Gym (AA run)AA's EnterpriseOps-Gym score for enterprise operations agents. | 51.1% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Epoch Capabilities IndexEpoch Capabilities Index: Epoch AI's composite across its benchmark hub, with its confidence interval. | 163 | Claude Fable 5 | Epoch AI | Oct 26, 2026 |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (Epoch)Share of FrontierMath Tier 4 research math problems solved, Epoch AI's run. | 90.2% | Max effort | Epoch AI | Jun 9, 2026 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1 to 3 (Epoch)Share of FrontierMath Tiers 1 to 3 problems solved, Epoch AI's run. | 87.0% | Max effort | Epoch AI | Jun 9, 2026 |
| FrontierSWEFrontierSWE score, as Epoch AI republishes it. | 47.0% | Max effort | FrontierSWE (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 |
| GPQA Diamond (AA run)GPQA Diamond accuracy in AA's run. | 92.6% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch)GPQA Diamond accuracy, best scorer, Epoch AI's run. | 85.9% | Max effort | Epoch AI | Aug 6, 2026 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA run)Share of Humanity's Last Exam questions answered correctly in AA's run. | 55.5% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| IFBench (AA run)Instruction-following accuracy on IFBench in AA's run. | 63.5% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis Intelligence Index: AA's composite of its own evaluation runs, 0 to 100 points. | 49.6 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| LMCALMCA score, 0 to 100, as Epoch AI republishes it. Its interval is printed only as a half-width, so it is not drawn. | 60.3 | Max effort | Redwood Research (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Mystery game puzzles (Epoch)Share of mystery game puzzles solved, Epoch AI's run. | 52% | Max effort | Epoch AI | Jul 31, 2026 |
| OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch)Share of OTIS Mock AIME 2024 to 2025 problems solved, Epoch AI's run. | 99.7% | Max effort | Epoch AI | Jun 10, 2026 |
| ProofBenchShare of ProofBench proofs graded correct, from Vals AI as Epoch AI republishes it. | 95% | Max effort | Vals AI (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 |
| SciCode (AA run)SciCode subproblem accuracy in AA's run. | 61.0% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| tau-Banking (AA run)AA's tau-Banking tool-use score. | 38.1% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| tau2-Bench (AA run)AA's tau2-Bench tool-use score. | 98.5% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA run)Share of Terminal-Bench 4.0 tasks solved in AA's own harness. | 42.4% | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| WebDev ArenaWebDev Arena score from human pairwise votes on web builds, with its 95% interval, as Epoch AI republishes it. | 1,628 | High effort | LMArena (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 |
| WeirdML v3, best runWeirdML v3 maximum performance across runs, as Epoch AI republishes it. | 27.9% | Extra-high effort | Håvard Tveit Ihle (via Epoch AI) | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Domains | ||||
| EconomicsArtificial Analysis capability score for economics questions, 0 to 100 points. | 60.4 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| EngineeringArtificial Analysis capability score for engineering questions, 0 to 100 points. | 53 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Finance and accountingArtificial Analysis capability score for finance and accounting questions, 0 to 100 points. | 53.8 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Healthcare and medicalArtificial Analysis capability score for healthcare and medical questions, 0 to 100 points. | 47.2 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| LegalArtificial Analysis capability score for legal questions, 0 to 100 points. | 58 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Strategy and operationsArtificial Analysis capability score for strategy and operations questions, 0 to 100 points. | 55.5 | Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) | Artificial Analysis | Oct 26, 2026 |
Where Claude Fable 5 is offered, what each route charges, and how each endpoint is holding up.
14 of 19 routes GILD tracks offer Claude Fable 5 today, preview included. Read Oct 28, 2026 from each route's own pages.
| Route | Status | Model ID | Limits and lifecycle | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock | Available | anthropic.claude-fable-5 | us./global. profiles; no in-Region; Active, EOL not sooner than June 9, 2027; tiers: Standard only; context / output 1M / 128K | Amazon Web Services, Models at a glanceAmazon Web Services, Claude Fable 5 |
| Claude Code | Available | claude-fable-5 | By full model name on the Anthropic API, or provider ARN, version or deployment name; aliases resolve per provider | Anthropic |
| Claude on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed) | Available | claude-fable-5 | Claude API model IDs (dated IDs use a hyphen) | Anthropic, Claude Fable 5Anthropic, Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed) |
| Claude Platform on AWS | Available | claude-fable-5 | Same ID as the Claude API | Anthropic |
| Cursor | Available | available, hidden by default; Premium plan or higher, API list price | Anysphere (Cursor) | |
| Databricks | Available | databricks-claude-fable-5 | available | Databricks, Databricks-hosted inferenceDatabricks, Detailed list of models supported by Databricks Foundation Model APIs |
| The maker's own API | Available | claude-fable-5 | context / max output 1M / 128K; status per deprecations table | Anthropic, Claude Fable 5Anthropic, Model deprecations |
| GitHub Copilot | Available | not statedpicker label Claude Fable 5 | available (GA) | GitHub |
| GitHub Models | Retired | not applicableservice retired | service retired July 30, 2026 | GitHub, GitHub Models |
| Google Cloud Vertex / Agent Platform (Google managed) | Available | claude-fable-5 (GA) | retirement not sooner than June 8, 2027; input / output 1,000,000 / 128,000 | Google, Anthropic's Claude on Google Cloud modelsGoogle, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on Google CloudAnthropic |
| Microsoft Foundry | Available | claude-fable-5 | deployment name defaults to model ID; hosted on Anthropic only; context 1M; no Message Batches API | AnthropicMicrosoft Learn |
| OpenCode | Available | claude-fable-5 | OpenCode Zen gateway, Anthropic Messages endpoint | Anomaly (OpenCode), ModelsOpenCode (Anomaly) |
| OpenRouter | Available | anthropic/claude-fable-5 | context / max completion 1,000,000 / 128,000 | OpenRouter |
| Snowflake Cortex | Preview | claude-fable-5 | Regions: Cross Cloud (Any Region) (private preview); AWS US (Cross-Region) (private preview). Per-model context/output not stated in token table. | Snowflake |
| Windsurf / Devin | Available | claude-5-fable-highclaude-5-fable-lowclaude-5-fable-maxclaude-5-fable-mediumclaude-5-fable-xhigh | available | Cognition (Devin, formerly Windsurf), AI Models |
Not offered on 1 route: Antigravity.
3 routes do not say: Codex, Gemini CLI and Grok Build.
| Route | Status | Model ID | Limits and lifecycle | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antigravity | Not offered | not listed; Gemini CLI serves Gemini models only | ||
| Codex | Not stated | Codex model docs list OpenAI models only | ||
| Gemini CLI | Not stated | Region, tier and limits not stated on the route's pages. | ||
| Grok Build | Not stated | Grok Build pages name only grok-4.7 | xAI (SpaceXSI) |
The lowest standard rate is Claude API, at $10 / $50 per million input and output tokens. US dollars per million tokens, as each route lists them, one row per route and rate plan, cheapest standard rate first after the maker's own; a blended rate states its mix.
| Route | Standard, in / out | Cache read | Other rates | Source, or uptime (1 day / 30 min) and limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude APIMakerLowest | $10 / $50 | Anthropic, Oct 26, 2026 | ||
| Artificial Analysis price record | $10 / $50 | $1 | Blended $20, 3 input : 1 output, no cacheBlended $7.70, 7 cache-hit : 2 input : 1 outputCache write $12.50 | Artificial Analysis, Oct 26, 2026 |
Anthropic's 14 releases in 4 families, oldest to newest along each tier, with list price and speed. Claude Fable 5 is lit.
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We cover 4 products that offer Claude Fable 5 today: 3 subscriptions and 1 API.
GILD comparisons that name Claude Fable 5, then those of the clouds and APIs that serve it.
Strongest on Quality and reasoning, weakest on Cost.
Each figure is the share of accounts naming Claude Fable 5 that speak well of it on that axis. An axis is scored once praise and concerns are both on record from at least five accounts by three authors. An account from the maker, a company that sells or serves the model, or the maker's expert program is listed and counts toward no figure.
| Axis | Favorable | Accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Quality and reasoningWhether its answers and code are right on the author's own task: reasoning, accuracy, instruction following, and consistency. | 68% | 13 favorable, 6 not, 18 authors |
| Tool use and structured outputWhether it calls tools correctly, returns valid structured output, and keeps agent loops on track. | 57% | 4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors |
| Long contextHow it holds up over long documents, large codebases, long sessions, and many images or PDFs. | 33% | 2 favorable, 4 not, 6 authors |
| Developer experienceHow it is to build with: prompting, steering, effort settings, and support across SDKs and providers. | 25% | 3 favorable, 9 not, 12 authors |
| CostWhat the work costs: price per task, token use, and what caching and batch save. | 8% | 1 favorable, 11 not, 12 authors |
| SpeedResponse time, time to first token, and throughput. | 57% | 4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors |
| ReliabilityWhether requests keep succeeding: overloaded errors, outages, rate limits, and changes that broke what worked. | 22% | 2 favorable, 7 not, 9 authors |
| Axis | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Fable 5.1 | Claude Opus 5 | Claude Sonnet 5 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Claude Opus 4.6 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | GPT-6.1 Terra | GPT-6.1 Sol | GPT-6 Luna | GPT-6 Astra | GPT-5.6 Sol | GPT-5.6 Terra | GPT-5.6 Luna | GPT-5.5 | GPT-5.4 | gpt-oss-120b | GPT-6 Sol | GPT-5.3-Codex | Gemini 4 Argon | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Gemma 4 31B | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Gemini 3.6 Flash | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Kimi K3 | Kimi K2.7 Code | Mistral Large 4 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Grok 4.7 | Grok 4.6 | Grok 4.5 | MiniMax M3.1 Flash | Mercury 3 | GLM-5.3-Flash | GLM-5.3 | GLM-5.2 | Muse Spark Open | Muse Wonder | Muse Spark 1.3 | Llama 4 Scout | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen3.8 27B | Qwen3.8 Max | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Ling 3.1 Flash | Step 5 Preview |
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| Quality and reasoning | 68%13 favorable, 6 not, 18 authors | 73%19 favorable, 7 not, 26 authors | 64%14 favorable, 8 not, 22 authors | 68%17 favorable, 8 not, 25 authors | 54%15 favorable, 13 not, 28 authors | 50%6 favorable, 6 not, 12 authors | 56%9 favorable, 7 not, 16 authors | 68%17 favorable, 8 not, 25 authors | 57%12 favorable, 9 not, 21 authors | 67%12 favorable, 6 not, 18 authors | 70%19 favorable, 8 not, 27 authors | 62%13 favorable, 8 not, 20 authors | 58%14 favorable, 10 not, 24 authors | 69%11 favorable, 5 not, 16 authors | 33%3 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | 55%12 favorable, 10 not, 22 authors | 55%16 favorable, 13 not, 29 authors | 44%12 favorable, 15 not, 26 authors | 33%3 favorable, 6 not, 9 authors | 38%3 favorable, 5 not, 8 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors3 favorable, 1 not, 4 authors | 33%4 favorable, 8 not, 12 authors | 33%2 favorable, 4 not, 6 authors | 58%22 favorable, 16 not, 38 authors | 31%10 favorable, 22 not, 32 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 3 not, 4 authors | 63%22 favorable, 13 not, 35 authors | 56%27 favorable, 21 not, 45 authors | 80%24 favorable, 6 not, 28 authors | 56%20 favorable, 16 not, 36 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 3 not, 4 authors | 61%25 favorable, 16 not, 40 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 4 not, 4 authors | 59%20 favorable, 14 not, 32 authors | Only praise on record3 favorable, 0 not, 3 authors | 50%3 favorable, 3 not, 6 authors | 58%11 favorable, 8 not, 18 authors | 36%5 favorable, 9 not, 14 authors | 43%16 favorable, 21 not, 36 authors | 86%6 favorable, 1 not, 7 authors | 60%3 favorable, 2 not, 5 authors | 62%13 favorable, 8 not, 21 authors | 86%18 favorable, 3 not, 21 authors | 67%14 favorable, 7 not, 21 authors | 76%47 favorable, 15 not, 61 authors | 71%5 favorable, 2 not, 7 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors | 20%1 favorable, 4 not, 5 authors | Only praise on record2 favorable, 0 not, 2 authors | 53%8 favorable, 7 not, 15 authors | 44%8 favorable, 10 not, 17 authors | 71%24 favorable, 10 not, 34 authors | 57%4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors | 22%2 favorable, 7 not, 9 authors | 40%4 favorable, 6 not, 10 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors |
| Tool use and structured output | 57%4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors | 67%6 favorable, 3 not, 9 authors | 40%4 favorable, 6 not, 10 authors | 46%6 favorable, 7 not, 13 authors | 30%3 favorable, 7 not, 10 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors3 favorable, 1 not, 4 authors | 70%7 favorable, 3 not, 10 authors | 50%4 favorable, 4 not, 8 authors | 50%4 favorable, 4 not, 8 authors | 29%2 favorable, 5 not, 7 authors | 33%4 favorable, 8 not, 12 authors | 70%7 favorable, 3 not, 10 authors | 43%3 favorable, 4 not, 6 authors | 50%3 favorable, 3 not, 6 authors | 40%2 favorable, 3 not, 5 authors | 40%4 favorable, 6 not, 10 authors | 33%3 favorable, 6 not, 9 authors | 62%8 favorable, 5 not, 13 authors | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 2 not, 2 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | No accounts yet | 27%4 favorable, 11 not, 15 authors | 56%5 favorable, 4 not, 9 authors | No accounts yet | 25%2 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | 47%7 favorable, 8 not, 15 authors | 67%4 favorable, 2 not, 6 authors | 54%7 favorable, 6 not, 12 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 59%10 favorable, 7 not, 17 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors3 favorable, 1 not, 4 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | No accounts yet | 38%5 favorable, 8 not, 13 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 5 not, 5 authors | 38%6 favorable, 10 not, 16 authors | Only praise on record2 favorable, 0 not, 2 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 67%4 favorable, 2 not, 6 authors | 80%8 favorable, 2 not, 10 authors | 33%2 favorable, 4 not, 6 authors | 57%4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 1 not, 2 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 2 not, 3 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 4 not, 4 authors | 46%6 favorable, 7 not, 13 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 5 not, 5 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author |
| Long context | 33%2 favorable, 4 not, 6 authors | 29%2 favorable, 5 not, 7 authors | 60%3 favorable, 2 not, 5 authors | 80%8 favorable, 2 not, 10 authors | 63%5 favorable, 3 not, 8 authors | 67%4 favorable, 2 not, 6 authors | 50%3 favorable, 3 not, 6 authors | 60%6 favorable, 4 not, 10 authors | 50%4 favorable, 4 not, 7 authors | 71%5 favorable, 2 not, 7 authors | 64%7 favorable, 4 not, 11 authors | 40%4 favorable, 6 not, 10 authors | 40%2 favorable, 3 not, 5 authors | 50%4 favorable, 4 not, 8 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 38%3 favorable, 5 not, 8 authors | 20%1 favorable, 4 not, 5 authors | 27%3 favorable, 8 not, 11 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors | 25%2 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 3 not, 3 authors | No accounts yet | 25%2 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | 38%5 favorable, 8 not, 13 authors | 20%1 favorable, 4 not, 5 authors | 44%7 favorable, 9 not, 16 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | 58%7 favorable, 5 not, 12 authors | No accounts yet | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors3 favorable, 1 not, 4 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 3 not, 4 authors | No accounts yet | 42%5 favorable, 7 not, 12 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | 40%2 favorable, 3 not, 5 authors | 60%3 favorable, 2 not, 5 authors | No accounts yet | 40%2 favorable, 3 not, 5 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 3 not, 3 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 1 not, 3 authors | 75%6 favorable, 2 not, 8 authors | Only praise on record1 favorable, 0 not, 1 author | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 1 not, 2 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors1 favorable, 1 not, 2 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet |
| Developer experience | 25%3 favorable, 9 not, 12 authors | 25%2 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | 38%5 favorable, 8 not, 13 authors | 38%6 favorable, 10 not, 16 authors | 50%7 favorable, 7 not, 14 authors | 25%3 favorable, 9 not, 12 authors | 29%2 favorable, 5 not, 7 authors | 53%10 favorable, 9 not, 19 authors | 29%4 favorable, 10 not, 14 authors | 57%4 favorable, 3 not, 7 authors | 45%5 favorable, 6 not, 11 authors | 67%8 favorable, 4 not, 12 authors | Needs 5 accounts from 3 authors2 favorable, 2 not, 4 authors | 50%3 favorable, 3 not, 6 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 2 not, 2 authors | 27%3 favorable, 8 not, 11 authors | 25%2 favorable, 6 not, 8 authors | 41%7 favorable, 10 not, 17 authors | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | 14%1 favorable, 6 not, 7 authors | 25%3 favorable, 9 not, 12 authors | No accounts yet | 33%3 favorable, 6 not, 9 authors | 39%7 favorable, 11 not, 17 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 7 not, 7 authors | 40%8 favorable, 12 not, 20 authors | No accounts yet | 35%8 favorable, 15 not, 23 authors | No accounts yet | 9%1 favorable, 10 not, 11 authors | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 13%2 favorable, 14 not, 16 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 9 not, 9 authors | 25%5 favorable, 15 not, 20 authors | No accounts yet | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 7 not, 7 authors | 11%1 favorable, 8 not, 9 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 3 not, 3 authors | 33%5 favorable, 10 not, 15 authors | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | No accounts yet | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 6 not, 6 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | 17%1 favorable, 5 not, 6 authors | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | Only concerns on record0 favorable, 1 not, 1 author | No accounts yet | No accounts yet |
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GILD searched Hacker News, GitHub, Reddit, X, Artificial Analysis, Vals AI and the web for accounts that name Claude Fable 5.
Both in planning and direct execution on complex changes across code and infra.
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. bredren, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 1, 2026. Fable 5 in interactive sessions with custom tools and skills, against Opus 5.
the previous Fable 5 I had access to for just 3 days was fantastic
Comment on: Fable 5 is Back. PeterStuer, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 2, 2026. Fable 5 during its first three days of access.
My experiences with Fable thus far have been far from 'mid-tier'.
Comment on: Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks. PeterStuer, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jun 12, 2026. Fable 5 in normal development and debugging.
Fable 5 still wins on detail with no visible errors, but it's close.
Comment on: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. ianberdin, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 21, 2026. Fable 5 against Gemini 3.6 Flash on a 3D MacBook SVG benchmark.
I write a lot of Rust and Lean, Fable 5 is in my experience better at both.
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. rot256, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 1, 2026. Fable 5 on Rust and Lean.
Fable 5 was worse than Opus 5 in almost every category
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. petreradu, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 2, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 5 on Anthropic's published evals.
Opus 5 is better than Fable 5 except for creative programming work (like graphics).
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. rfgplk, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 1, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 5 for programming.
it's not as smart as Fable and I have to constantly challenge and correct its unfounded assumptions
Comment on: Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things. matheusmoreira, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 17, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 4.8, Opus 5 and Sol.
Fable 5 spending six days debugging a deadlock because it didn't think to add any observability
Comment on: Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance. cameronh90, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 25, 2026. Fable 5 debugging a deadlock.
it just produces much more complete work in one shot reliably
Comment on: Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5. tilleryj, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 3, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.
I tried it with Fable 5 High just now and I was very impressed with the output.
Comment on: Pareto Front. Whitespace, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 6, 2026. Fable 5 High on a one-shot task.
Try pointing Fable 5 to almost any CS paper - it can reproduce results in mere hours
Comment on: I think you might be fooling yourself with AI. dilyevsky, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 23, 2026. Fable 5 building a TCP simulator to reproduce BBR paper results.
nothing one-shots a prototype better than Fable 5
Comment on: Small Models Have Arrived. jermaustin1, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 27, 2026. Fable 5 building game prototypes.
I just haven't seen it provide noticeably better results compared to Opus
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. eis, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 1, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 5 on a 20x Max plan.
is amongst the leading models in intelligence
Claude Fable 5 (max with Opus 4.8 fallback) - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis. Artificial Analysis, independent model benchmark publisher, self-described, Oct 26, 2026. Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) on the Artificial Analysis model page.
It resets the top of the leaderboard, taking #1 on the Vals Index (75.15%) and the Vals Multimodal Index (74.15%).
Claude Fable 5 Benchmarks, Cost and Capabilities | Vals AI. Vals AI, independent model benchmark publisher, self-described, Jun 9, 2026. Claude Fable 5 at max compute effort with Claude Opus 4.8 as refusal fallback, across the Vals AI suite.
Fable 5 with Claude Code landed mid-table on our leaderboard: 59.8% FuncPass and just 19.0% SecPass
Claude Fable 5: Mythos-grade hype, record cheating, and a few hall-of-fame entries. Luca Compagna, Principal Security Researcher at Endor Labs, Jun 10, 2026. Claude Fable 5 with Claude Code on 200 vulnerability-fixing tasks in Endor Labs' Agent Security League.
We could give Fable 5 vague prompts and still get complete projects rather than prototype shells.
Fable 5 review: Coding tasks and code review results. Juan Pablo Flores and Gowtham Kishore Vijay, CodeRabbit blog authors, self-described, Jun 9, 2026. Fable 5 on CodeRabbit's 105-EP code review benchmark and coding task benchmark.
Claude Fable 5 is excellent at some very specific kinds of work: visual document formatting, exhaustive technical investigation
My Honest Review of Claude Fable 5. Claire Vo, founder and CEO of ChatPRD, Jun 11, 2026. Claude Fable 5 at extra-high effort across document formatting, technical writing, frontend design, implementation and multi-agent work.
Fable 5 was an absolute beast on this benchmark. It produced the best solution overall
Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal Help?. Charles Azam, personal blog author, self-described, Jul 17, 2026. Claude Fable 5 in Claude Code against GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex on the KIRO fiber-network optimization problem, with and without /goal.
engaged with the nonsense instead of rejecting it
[MODEL] Measurable quality regression in Claude generation 5 (Fable 5 / Opus 5 / Sonnet 5): worse nonsense detection, ~2x verbosity, under-disclosed model fallback (Fable 5 → Opus 4.8) , reproducible measurements. KeilerHirsch, GitHub issue author, self-described, Aug 3, 2026. Fable 5 (claude-fable-5) and other Claude generation 5 models on BullshitBench nonsense prompts.
Fable 5 takes the top spot (0.6579), setting a new performance record
Comment on: Handwritten-edit benchmark: Fable 5 is #1, Opus 4.8 regresses 55% on miscounting. svcrunch, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 23, 2026. Fable 5 on the Little Dorrit handwritten-edit benchmark.
I decided to only use Opus 5 if I'm actually talking to Fable 5 that's orchestrating it
Comment on: Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere. mihaelm, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 19, 2026. Fable 5 orchestrating Opus 5.
The AskUserQuestion dialog appears. The long text never renders anywhere.
[Bug] Fable 5 writes user-facing output into hidden thinking instead of a text block , same as #66112, fixed for Opus but still reproduces on Fable. tobihagemann, GitHub issue author, self-described, Jul 4, 2026. Fable 5 (claude-fable-5) in Claude Code with the AskUserQuestion tool.
subagents demonstrably complete their work (hundreds of files written to the workspace), but their results are never reconciled back to the parent session
[BUG] claude-fable-5 (xhigh): parent session permanently wedges , parallel subagent results never reconcile, event stream goes silent (repro 3x, 0.3.197 & 0.3.251). fjnoyp, GitHub issue author, self-described, Aug 31, 2026. claude-fable-5 (Fable 5) at xhigh in headless Agent SDK sessions with parallel subagents.
Claude Fable 5 defaults to spawning far too many agents at once even for Claude Max 20x users.
[Bug] Parallel agent spawning causes excessive token consumption before crashing or hitting limits. DrAlexHarrison, GitHub issue author, self-described, Jun 11, 2026. Claude Fable 5 on two Claude Max 20x accounts in Claude Code.
I have Fable 5 xhigh drive the whole thing: it gets Codex CLI installed in its environment with an API key, and it's instructed to delegate ~everything to Codex and review its work
Comment on: Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale. tfehring, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 8, 2026. Fable 5 xhigh driving Codex CLI agents at a startup.
i reserve Fable 5/Sol XHigh for "main thread" orchestration
Comment on: Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale. extr, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 7, 2026. Fable 5 and Sol XHigh as main-thread orchestrators.
both Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 don't seem to get lost with that much context
Comment on: OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k. jwitthuhn, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 19, 2026. Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 on prompts using 300k to 400k tokens.
you can already see it with GPT-5.6 and Fable-5, to delegate complex enough tasks that will take more than 24 hours to get done and they will not lose track
Comment on: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731. FernandoTN, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 7, 2026. GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 on long-horizon tasks.
why Opus 5 and Fable 5 seem to forget so much when I give it rapid fire tasks
Comment on: Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?. bradgessler, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 14, 2026. Opus 5 and Fable 5 on rapid-fire UI review tasks.
Sometimes they can't even remember the correct workflow even if they're merely an orchestrator
Comment on: Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough). chmod775, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 24, 2026. Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 as orchestrators at around 350k to 450k tokens.
The result is that the advisor effectively never works in real sessions on Fable 5
Advisor tool returns "unavailable" on claude-fable-5 whenever transcript exceeds ~100K tokens. mikeberlinworkshop, GitHub issue author, self-described, Jun 11, 2026. claude-fable-5 (Fable 5) as request and advisor model in Claude Code.
Claude starts to forget the terse output style by the middle of the context window
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. jakevoytko, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 1, 2026. Opus and Fable 5 with a terse output style over long-running sessions.
I run into fallback to Opus 4.8 all the time, and I am not even doing "security Research", just normal development and debugging.
Comment on: Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks. PeterStuer, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jun 12, 2026. Fable 5 in normal development and debugging.
I prefer their type of prose across the board to what Opus 5 and Fable 5 kept outputting
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. KronisLV, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 1, 2026. Opus 5 and Fable 5 prose.
Starting with Fable 5, if it goes off the rails, it is more difficult to correct it
Comment on: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models. kloud, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 26, 2026. Fable 5 with a light CLAUDE.md.
Opus 5/Fable 5 outright ignored it.
Comment on: Claude Opus 5.5. rfgplk, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 22, 2026. Opus 5 and Fable 5 given a no-comments instruction.
I liked Fable 5, as it didn't gabble like Opus did. It was good at clarity & conciseness.
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. twhitmore, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 3, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus.
Fable 5 gives me policy violation errors at the moment.
Comment on: Claude Fable 5. arkwin, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jun 9, 2026. Fable 5 on vulnerability research, as a Cyber Verification Program member.
it generated 130M tokens, which is somewhat verbose in comparison to the median of 87M
Claude Fable 5 (max with Opus 4.8 fallback) - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis. Artificial Analysis, independent model benchmark publisher, self-described, Oct 26, 2026. Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) on the Artificial Analysis model page.
The API showed a high rate of refusals, especially on bio and cyber-related questions.
Claude Fable 5 Benchmarks, Cost and Capabilities | Vals AI. Vals AI, independent model benchmark publisher, self-described, Jun 9, 2026. Claude Fable 5 at max compute effort with Claude Opus 4.8 as refusal fallback, across the Vals AI suite.
Fable 5 engaged with all 200 security relevant coding tasks without a single content-policy block.
Claude Fable 5: Mythos-grade hype, record cheating, and a few hall-of-fame entries. Luca Compagna, Principal Security Researcher at Endor Labs, Jun 10, 2026. Claude Fable 5 with Claude Code on 200 vulnerability-fixing tasks in Endor Labs' Agent Security League.
It does not spend much time narrating what it is about to do.
Fable 5 review: Coding tasks and code review results. Juan Pablo Flores and Gowtham Kishore Vijay, CodeRabbit blog authors, self-described, Jun 9, 2026. Fable 5 on CodeRabbit's 105-EP code review benchmark and coding task benchmark.
Sometimes it produces cautious, overbuilt output that is harder to use than the simpler alternatives.
My Honest Review of Claude Fable 5. Claire Vo, founder and CEO of ChatPRD, Jun 11, 2026. Claude Fable 5 at extra-high effort across document formatting, technical writing, frontend design, implementation and multi-agent work.
The forensic work itself was eventually excellent
Fable 5 model behavior: 16 min of silent tool calls, then AskUserQuestion about never-shared findings during incident response. rasatpetabit, GitHub issue author, self-described, Jun 10, 2026. Claude Code running Fable 5 (claude-fable-5) in an incident-response session.
It keeps triggering me thinking it's a biological weapon.
[Bug] Fable 5 safeguards overly broad, flagging routine coding tasks. 0x524c, GitHub issue author, self-described, Jul 9, 2026. Fable 5 in Claude Code on a simple coding project.
data retention mode 'default' is not available for this model
Claude Fable 5 on Bedrock returns raw 400 (data retention mode 'default' not available). sharon-wang, GitHub issue author, self-described, Jul 27, 2026. Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock through Posit Assistant.
for $0.16, about a fifth of Fable's price
Comment on: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. ianberdin, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 21, 2026. Fable 5 against Gemini 3.6 Flash on a 3D MacBook SVG benchmark.
I loved Fable 5 and 5.1, but they were so expensive.
Comment on: Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code. jackchillemi, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Oct 5, 2026. Fable 5 and 5.1 coordinating Opus subagents.
Fable 5 being so expensive that it needs to be rationed
Comment on: AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems. SyneRyder, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 5, 2026. Fable 5 usage by developers.
at work I used $1000 in credit and ran out my $200 plan for the entire month writing 4 much smaller projects with Fable 5 Max
Comment on: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra. zamadatix, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 3, 2026. Fable 5 Max on four small work projects.
Cost/performance is a different story.
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. rot256, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 1, 2026. Fable 5 on Rust and Lean.
while consuming twice the tokens
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. petreradu, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 2, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 5 on Anthropic's published evals.
(Fable 5 did it in 245k for $0.95)
Comment on: Claude Opus 5. eli, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 24, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 on a game-engine build benchmark.
Fable 5 might be slightly better but the token cost isn't worth it.
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. rfgplk, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 1, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 5 for programming.
I am not sure if Fable is worth it, at least with version 5 vs Opus 5.
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. eis, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 1, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 5 on a 20x Max plan.
but particularly expensive when comparing to other models of similar price
Claude Fable 5 (max with Opus 4.8 fallback) - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis. Artificial Analysis, independent model benchmark publisher, self-described, Oct 26, 2026. Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) on the Artificial Analysis model page.
it also makes it expensive and slower in agent workflows that do not have strong stop rules
Fable 5 review: Coding tasks and code review results. Juan Pablo Flores and Gowtham Kishore Vijay, CodeRabbit blog authors, self-described, Jun 9, 2026. Fable 5 on CodeRabbit's 105-EP code review benchmark and coding task benchmark.
For Claude Fable 5, the tokens alone ran $16.99 to $25.05, about 30-40% of each run's total.
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol. TryAI, company blog, self-described, Jul 16, 2026. Claude Fable 5 directing a music video in TryAI's open-source agent harness at $25 and $100 budgets.
Claude spawned 10 agents who did a bunch of reads then crashed, costing me a few million tokens of usage.
[Bug] Parallel agent spawning causes excessive token consumption before crashing or hitting limits. DrAlexHarrison, GitHub issue author, self-described, Jun 11, 2026. Claude Fable 5 on two Claude Max 20x accounts in Claude Code.
Only Fable 5 seems to be smart enough to just know everything it needs to immediately start working
Comment on: Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things. matheusmoreira, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 17, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 4.8, Opus 5 and Sol.
I was getting the same results as Fable, just faster and cheaper
Comment on: Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5. tilleryj, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 3, 2026. Fable 5 against Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.
It took 7 minutes and one turn.
Comment on: Pareto Front. Whitespace, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 6, 2026. Fable 5 High on a one-shot task.
It took it ~4 hours to bang out initial version
Comment on: I think you might be fooling yourself with AI. dilyevsky, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 23, 2026. Fable 5 building a TCP simulator to reproduce BBR paper results.
I can have a prototype built in 30 minutes
Comment on: Small Models Have Arrived. jermaustin1, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 27, 2026. Fable 5 building game prototypes.
At 67 tokens per second, Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) is slower than average (83)
Claude Fable 5 (max with Opus 4.8 fallback) - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis. Artificial Analysis, independent model benchmark publisher, self-described, Oct 26, 2026. Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) on the Artificial Analysis model page.
Fable 5's extended thinking caused more per-instance timeouts than any model-and-harness combination we have ever tested
Claude Fable 5: Mythos-grade hype, record cheating, and a few hall-of-fame entries. Luca Compagna, Principal Security Researcher at Endor Labs, Jun 10, 2026. Claude Fable 5 with Claude Code on 200 vulnerability-fixing tasks in Endor Labs' Agent Security League.
In our coding task benchmark, Fable 5 often kept working until the harness cut it off.
Fable 5 review: Coding tasks and code review results. Juan Pablo Flores and Gowtham Kishore Vijay, CodeRabbit blog authors, self-described, Jun 9, 2026. Fable 5 on CodeRabbit's 105-EP code review benchmark and coding task benchmark.
By switching to Fable 5, it seems to be working still.
Comment on: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved. devy, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 29, 2026. Fable 5 during an Opus 5 error spike.
Fable 5 is mid refactor on one of my projects, no api error for me.
Comment on: Tell HN: Claude Code Is Down. brumbelow, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Aug 13, 2026. Fable 5 mid refactor during a Claude Code outage.
Fable 5 seems like it got nerfed when 5.1 came out.
Comment on: Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?. apt-apt-apt-apt, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 30, 2026. Fable 5 after the Fable 5.1 release.
I keep getting this error mid agent loop: "Error: claude-fable-5 is temporarily unavailable"
Comment on: Fable 5 is Back. throwaw12, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 1, 2026. claude-fable-5 (Fable 5) in an agent loop after its return on July 1.
now shows "Elevated errors across Fable 5"
Comment on: Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?. cornellwright, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Jul 17, 2026. Fable 5 in Claude plans on July 17.
I would run out of weekly quota in 2 days, whereas Opus 4.8 would last the entire week
Comment on: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. indemnity, Hacker News commenter, self-described, Sep 2, 2026. Fable 5 and Opus 5 on a Claude Max 20x plan.
Measured five different ways, August delivered dramatically fewer thinking tokens than July.
X post by @Lon. Lon, X user, self-described, Sep 20, 2026. Fable 5 on a subscription plan, July against August.
the downgrade then **persists silently for hundreds of turns**
Fable 5 safeguard flag silently reroutes sessions to Opus 4.8 for hundreds of turns with no persistent indicator. NellInc, GitHub issue author, self-described, Jul 18, 2026. Fable 5 sessions in Claude Code after a safeguard flag.
A Claude Code session configured for **Fable 5** (effort xHigh) is being served by a model that self-identifies as **Haiku 4.5**
Model routing mismatch: session set to Fable 5 (xHigh), served model self-identifies as Haiku 4.5. Tor-Grimsson, GitHub issue author, self-described, Aug 27, 2026. Claude Code session set to Fable 5 at xHigh effort.