Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 4.6

  • Claude Fable 5.1 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1513 against 1502.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 is cheaper: $5 / $25 per million input / output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.1.
  • On the 6 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Fable 5.1 wins 6 and Claude Opus 4.6 wins 0.
LMArena text rating over time
14801490150015101520Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Oct 26
LatestClaude Opus 4.6 1502

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • Claude Opus 4.6
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Claude Opus 4.6
The model
LabAnthropicAnthropic
Released2026-09-012026-02-04
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$10$5
Output, per 1M tokens$50$25
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1513#3 of 3511502#6 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1743#5 of 1241546#45 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1320#4 of 1461316#6 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1531#7 of 3461534#3 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1532#3 of 3391518#7 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1510#3 of 3491505#4 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1528#3 of 3511524#5 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1519#4 of 3511521#3 of 351
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal58.08%#5 of 55—
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—78.20%#30 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works90.26%#6 of 11553.50%#57 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination90.52%#1 of 14384.68%#38 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions49.19%#2 of 76—
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research55.29%#3 of 85—
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes53.51%#8 of 10748.24%#30 of 107
MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias—95.41%#12 of 92
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not93.43%#9 of 13889.65%#29 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering92.38%#1 of 13889.11%#15 of 138
AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad—95.63%#9 of 96
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text90.64%#1 of 9383.87%#29 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal40.00%#6 of 42—

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Questions

Which is better, Claude Fable 5.1 or Claude Opus 4.6?

Claude Fable 5.1 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1513 against 1502. Claude Opus 4.6 is cheaper: $5 / $25 per million input / output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.1. On the 6 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Fable 5.1 wins 6 and Claude Opus 4.6 wins 0.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 or Claude Opus 4.6?

Claude Opus 4.6 is cheaper: $5 / $25 per million input / output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.1.

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