Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Fable 5: The New Leader at Half the Price

Claude Opus 5Claude Fable 5
arenaElo1492
humanEval98
sweBench9777
mmlu95.1
gpqa92
aime94
Price in/out ($/M)$5 / $25$10 / $50

Our verdict

Opus 5 takes the overall lead: 43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1 vs 33.7% for Fable 5, a GDPval-AA v2 Elo of 1861 vs 1747, 70.6% vs 66.1% on OSWorld 2.0 and an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 61 at max effort, the highest in the world. It does all of this at $5 / $25 per M tokens, half of Fable 5's $10 / $50. Fable 5 keeps a narrow edge on DeepSWE v1.1 (69.7% vs 68.8%), but for coding, agentic knowledge work and computer use, Opus 5 is the new default. Benchmark both on your real workload before committing.

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