Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic · Lanzado sept 2026
Anthropic's new frontier flagship is the most capable model publicly available, and it largely fixes the safeguard over-triggering that made Fable 5 frustrating for routine coding. The verdict stays conditional on cost: independent measurement shows more spend per task than Fable 5 despite the cheaper cache reads, because the model thinks longer. Reach for it on demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work. For everyday coding, Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 per 1M is Anthropic's recommended starting model and the better default.
¿Es adecuada para ti?
Bueno para
- Demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work — Anthropic's own guidance is to reach for Fable 5.1 on its most demanding tasks
- Agentic scientific research: 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 against Opus 5's 29.0% and Fable 5's 24.7%
- Context-heavy agent loops — cache reads dropped 75% to $0.25 per 1M, which Anthropic puts at up to ~45% cheaper on highly agentic workloads
- Long-document and whole-repo work: 1M-token context with 128K max output
- Security-adjacent coding that Fable 5 refused — cyber safeguards now permit vulnerability discovery, cutting Claude Code interventions ~60% per session
No recomendado para
- Cost-sensitive everyday coding — Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 per 1M is Anthropic's recommended starting model, and Anthropic says it performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work at a much lower rate
- Latency-sensitive paths — adaptive thinking is always on and Anthropic rates its comparative latency as the slowest in the lineup
- Budgeting by rate card alone — Artificial Analysis measures ~20% higher cost per task than Fable 5 despite the cache-read cut, because effort drives token count
- Fact-recall work where a confident wrong answer is expensive — at max effort it attempts 93.4% of AA-Omniscience questions, trading more hallucinations for its higher accuracy at no net Omniscience gain
Rendimiento por tarea
Agentic coding
55.8% Terminal-Bench 4.0 and 73.4% CursorBench 3.2.0, with far fewer safeguard interruptions than Fable 5
Scientific research agents
52.6% Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, roughly double Fable 5 and well ahead of Opus 5's 29.0%
Frontier reasoning
Tops the AA Intelligence Index at 66; 65.0% on Humanity's Last Exam with tools
Long-context work
1M-token window, 128K output, and cache reads at $0.25 per 1M make repeated large-context passes affordable
Computer use
41.7% OSWorld 2.0 strict — competent but not the reason to pay this rate
High-volume cheap inference
Wrong tier entirely; Haiku 4.5 at $1/$5 or Sonnet 5 at $2/$10 own this
Precios
Entrada
$10 / 1M tokens
Salida
$50 / 1M tokens
Contexto
1M context, 128K output; cache $0.25/1M
Pruebas de rendimiento
| Prueba | Puntuación | Fuente |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 66 | Fuente |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 | 52.6% | Fuente |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 55.8% | Fuente |
| CursorBench 3.2.0 | 73.4% | Fuente |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 60.9% | Fuente |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 65.0% | Fuente |
| AutomationBench | 31.4% | Fuente |
| OSWorld 2.0 (strict) | 41.7% | Fuente |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1853 | Fuente |
| AA-Omniscience accuracy (max effort) | 67.2% | Fuente |
Historial de veredictos
Fuentes
- Anthropic — Claude models overviewsept 2026
- Claude API docs: Pricing (Sonnet 4.6 $3/$15; Sonnet 5.5 and Sonnet 5 $2/$10)oct 2026
- AiCybr — Fable 5.1 / Mythos 5.1 pricing, benchmarks, accesssept 2026
- Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1oct 2026
- Anthropic - Introducing Claude Opus 5.5sept 2026
- Artificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5.1 tops the Intelligence Indexsept 2026
- MarkTechPost — Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1sept 2026
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Rate $10/$50 unchanged. Summary and strengths named Claude Opus 5 as the everyday default; Anthropic lists Opus 5 as legacy and recommends Opus 5.5 at $4/$20. Summary corrected via verdict_set (conditional held); strengths, audiences and sources refreshed.