Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 5

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (66.8 vs 67.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 54 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 54 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 2 categories and Claude Opus 5 in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Claude Opus 5 leads 50.8 to 45.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Furniture Assembly: 35.8% for Claude Fable 5 and 60.8% for Claude Opus 5.
  • Claude Opus 5 is cheaper at $5 / $25 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 5 specifications
Claude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Noometry Index66.867.8
Released2026-06-072026-07-24
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$10$5
Output $ / M tokens$50$25
Results tracked6257

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
DeepSWE69.9%73.6%
FrontierCode53.5%53.4%
LMArena WebDev16251691
FrontierSWE47%52%
SciCode61%56.4%
WeirdML91.9%91.8%
LMArena Coding15191534
ALE-Bench2,0412,165
CursorBench—46.6%
GSO78.4%—
MirrorCode63.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
APEX-Agents63.6%65.8%
τ²-bench Banking39.7%48.7%
PostTrainBench41.8%35%
GBAEval74.5%79.6%
GDP.pdf30%24%
Vending-Bench 25,68011,182
OSWorld 2.0—31.4%
Remote Labor Index16.1%—
BALROG—63.4%
LMArena Search1230—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude Fable 5: 76.8 (#6), Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
ARC-AGI-289.2%90.4%
SimpleBench81.9%80.6%
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%94.3%
ARC-AGI-198.5%97.5%
CritPt28.6%29.1%
Chess Puzzles41%42%
EBR-Bench39.5%45.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081526
Mystery Game Puzzles52%59%
DTBench98.4%97.9%
LMCA61.1%64.5%
Bench to the Future 30.130.12
Epoch Capabilities Index162.06162.78
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%—
EnigmaEval39.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%85.6%
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%73.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%98.9%
ProofBench95%99%
LMArena Math15191531
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
GPQA Diamond85.9%93.9%
SimpleQA Verified70.7%59.9%
LMArena Expert15341557

Multimodal Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
LMArena Vision13241319
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%30.4%
Furniture Assembly35.8%60.8%
LMArena Document14961516

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
LMArena Non-English14811501
LMArena Chinese15431574
LMArena French15051519
LMArena German14861524
LMArena Japanese15061516
LMArena Korean14881521
LMArena Russian15041507
LMArena Spanish14981519

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
LMArena Instruction Following15021517

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
LMArena Longer Query15091515

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 5
LMArena Text14911507
LMArena Creative Writing14941491
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19432133
EQ-Bench 413401385
LMArena Multi-Turn15041499

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Claude Opus 5?

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (66.8 vs 67.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Claude Opus 5?

Claude Opus 5 is cheaper. It lists at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens; Claude Fable 5 lists at $10 and $50.

Is Claude Fable 5 or Claude Opus 5 better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 67.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 5 share?

54 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 5 has 57.

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