Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 5

  • Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5 are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1513 and 1508).
  • Claude Opus 5 is cheaper: $5 / $25 per million input / output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.1.
  • On the 10 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Fable 5.1 wins 7 and Claude Opus 5 wins 3 (Claude Fable 5.1: Terminal-Bench 4.0, Vibe Code Bench, LiveCodeBench).

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Models (2/6)
  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • Claude Opus 5
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Claude Opus 5
The model
LabAnthropicAnthropic
Released2026-09-012026-07-24
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 3511508#4 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1743#5 of 1241691#9 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1320#4 of 1461320#3 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1531#7 of 3461533#4 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1532#3 of 3391533#2 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1510#3 of 3491495#5 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1528#3 of 3511527#4 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1519#4 of 3511518#5 of 351
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal58.08%#5 of 5553.53%#9 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—97.00%#1 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works90.26%#6 of 11588.40%#9 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination90.52%#1 of 14389.03%#4 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions49.19%#2 of 7645.55%#4 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research55.29%#3 of 8555.29%#2 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes53.51%#8 of 10763.57%#1 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not93.43%#9 of 13893.43%#8 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering92.38%#1 of 13891.59%#2 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text90.64%#1 of 9389.88%#2 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal40.00%#6 of 4227.14%#9 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Claude Fable 5.1 or Claude Opus 5?

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5 are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1513 and 1508). Claude Opus 5 is cheaper: $5 / $25 per million input / output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.1. On the 10 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Fable 5.1 wins 7 and Claude Opus 5 wins 3 (Claude Fable 5.1: Terminal-Bench 4.0, Vibe Code Bench, LiveCodeBench).

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 or Claude Opus 5?

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

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