Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 5

$8.75 / task
Wins 3 of 5 benchmarks
$2.19 / task
Wins 1 of 5 benchmarks
Different efforts: max · medium · Compare all at high
MMMU-Pro (vision) MMMU-Pro (vision): College-level questions that require understanding images: charts, diagrams, photos
Fable 5—
Opus 581.6
Chartography Chartography: Expert chart reasoning over professional scientific, medical, financial and engineering charts
Fable 534.8
Opus 5 · max27.3
GDP.pdf · AA all-pass GDP.pdf · AA all-pass: Models reason over professional PDF documents; an attempt passes only when every atomic criterion passes
Fable 524
Opus 520
Arena Document · overall Arena Document · overall: Human pairwise preferences in the stated document vote pool
Fable 51,496.1
Opus 5 · high1,516.3
Arena Vision · overall Arena Vision · overall: Human pairwise preferences in the stated vision vote pool
Fable 5 · high1,324.9
Opus 5 · high1,319.6

Specs

SpecFable 5Opus 5
Input, per 1M$10$5
Output, per 1M$50$25
Cost per task?$8.75$2.19
Speed, tok/s6755
Context1M1M
WeightsClosedClosed
ReleasedJun 2026Jul 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFsPartialPartial
Hear audio——
Watch video——
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool callPartialPartial
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web??
Run code??
Use a computer??

What breaks when you switch

Fable 5 → Opus 5
Nothing known.
Opus 5 → Fable 5
Nothing known.