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Anthropic · Claude 5

Claude Fable 5

Closed weightsSupersededproprietary

Original Fable-tier Claude (Jun 2026), now a legacy model superseded by Claude Fable 5.1.

AA Intelligence
49.6#5 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$10.00/ $50.00
Output speed
70tok/s
Context window
1M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#5 of 142
    50independentv4.3.2, max effort, Opus 4.8 fallbackArtificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • SciCode#3 of 94
    61%independentAA run, max effort, Opus 4.8 fallbackArtificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#6 of 88
    44.5%independentmax effort, Claude Code harness, ±3.8Terminal-Bench 4.0 official leaderboard ↗
    42.4%independentAA run (Terminal-Bench 4.0), max effort, Opus 4.8 fallbackArtificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#16 of 103
    84.6%independentAA run (Terminal-Bench 2.1), max effort, Opus 4.8 fallbackArtificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SWE-bench Pro#3 of 31
    80%vendorAnthropic-run, max effortClaude Fable 5.1 / Mythos 5.1 System Card, Table 8.1.A (Fable 5 column) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 89.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#14 of 103
    1595independentGDPval-AA v2.1, max effort, Opus 4.8 fallbackArtificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • τ²-Bench#2 of 88
    98.5%independentAA run, telecom, max effort, Opus 4.8 fallbackArtificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#20 of 142
    92.6%independentAA run, max effort, Opus 4.8 fallbackArtificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#4 of 147
    63.8%vendorwith tools, max effortAnthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 (Fable 5 column) ↗
    57.8%vendorno tools, max effortAnthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 (Fable 5 column) ↗
    55.5%independentAA run, no tools, max effort, Opus 4.8 fallbackArtificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#8 of 139
    28.6%independentAA run, max effort, Opus 4.8 fallbackArtificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

  • ARC-AGI-2#6 of 25
    89.2%independentmax effort; ARC Prize verified, cost $5.45/taskARC Prize leaderboard data (semi-private) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 95%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#17 of 139
    82.3%independentAA-LCR v1.1, max effort, Opus 4.8 fallbackArtificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#1 of 54
    1506independentclaude-fable-5-high; 30,057 votes (rank 1 on text arena)LMArena text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#12 of 54
    1627independentclaude-fable-5-high; 11,933 votesLMArena Code Arena | WebDev leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1818

Specs

Released
June 9, 2026
Parameters
Undisclosed
Size class
Undisclosed
Input
text, image
Output
text
Context
1M tokens
Max output
Not published
Cached input
$1.00 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$22.00 / 1M
First token
106.90s
  • Price: Claude API pricing ↗ Legacy but still available; superseded by Fable 5.1 at the same input/output price with cheaper cache reads.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: Claude Fable 5 (max effort) ↗

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