Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Mythos 5: Same Brain, Different Door

Claude Fable 5Claude Mythos 5
arenaElo14921493
humanEval9898
sweBench7778
mmlu95.195.1
gpqa9292
aime9494.5
Price in/out ($/M)$10 / $50$10 / $50

Our verdict

These are the same model on two access paths: identical capabilities, $10 / $50 per M tokens, 1M context, 128K output and always-on protected thinking. Fable 5 is generally available on the Claude API; Mythos 5 is the Project Glasswing successor to the Mythos Preview. Unless you are inside Project Glasswing, Fable 5 is the one you can actually ship on, and there is no capability you give up by choosing it.

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