vs
2:15
overall capability wins (3 ties across 20 scored). Claude Fable 5.1 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:5
- Coding1:5
- Arena1:0
- Agents0:4
- Tool use0:1
- Composite indices0:2
Verdict
Claude Fable 5.1 leads coding (widest gap: +130.0 on WebDev Elo); Claude Fable 5 ranks higher on LMArena (+7 Elo).
- Claude Fable 5.1 leads coding (widest gap: +130.0 on WebDev Elo)
- Claude Fable 5 ranks higher on LMArena (+7 Elo)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Claude Fable 5
- $22.50
- Claude Fable 5.1
- $22.50
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Anthropic
Anthropic
Family
Claude Fable / Mythos
Claude Fable / Mythos
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Jun 9, 2026
Sep 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Anthropic
Anthropic
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1M
Max output
128K
128K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$10
$10
Output $/1M
$50
$50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$20
$20
Speed
tok/s
58
-
TTFT (s)
0.7
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
92.6
93.7
Humanity's Last Exam
55.5
59.0
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
65.6
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
65.4
67.2
AA-LCR v1.1
82.3
83.0
CritPt
28.6
29.7
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
63.5
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
80.0
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
84.6
91.4
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
34.1
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
61.0
63.0
CursorBench
70.5
73.4
SWE-Rebench
64.5
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
69.9
67.4
WebDev Arena
1,628
1,758
Terminal-Bench 4.0
44.6
57.9
CursorBench 4.0
—
51.8
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,506
1,499
| Metric | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Fable 5.1 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Anthropic | Anthropic | — |
| Family | Claude Fable / Mythos | Claude Fable / Mythos | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Jun 9, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Anthropic | Anthropic | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1M | tie |
| Max output | 128K | 128K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $10 | $10 | tie |
| Output $/1M | $50 | $50 | tie |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $20 | $20 | tie |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 58 | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | 0.7 | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 92.6 | 93.7 | B +1.1 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 55.5 | 59.0 | B +3.5 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | 65.6 | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 65.4 | 67.2 | B +1.8 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 82.3 | 83.0 | B +0.7 pts |
| CritPt | 28.6 | 29.7 | B +1.1 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 63.5 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 80.0 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 84.6 | 91.4 | B +6.8 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | 34.1 | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 61.0 | 63.0 | B +2.0 pts |
| CursorBench | 70.5 | 73.4 | B +2.9 pts |
| SWE-Rebench | 64.5 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | 69.9 | 67.4 | A +2.5 pts |
| WebDev Arena | 1,628 | 1,758 | B +130 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 44.6 | 57.9 | B +13.3 pts |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | 51.8 | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,506 | 1,499 | A +7 Elo |
Claude Fable 5
- Context
- 1M / 128K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $10 / $50
- Speed
- 58 tok/s · 0.7s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Mythos-class Anthropic model optimized for long-horizon coding and writing; premium pricing relative to Opus 5.
Claude Fable 5.1
- Context
- 1M / 128K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $10 / $50
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Anthropic's September 2026 successor to Fable 5 - same input/output pricing with cache reads cut to a quarter of the price, and gains concentrated in long-horizon agentic coding, knowledge work, research, and computer use.
Benchmark charts
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