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Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 5
Of the 6 public leaderboards that rate both, Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on 5 and Claude Opus 5 on 1. On the ArtificialWatch Index, which takes the median of each model's percentile across the boards that score it, Claude Fable 5.1 is at 95.3 and Claude Opus 5 at 84.8 (out of 100).
Scores as published by each board; table composed September 24, 2026.
Leaderboard by leaderboard
| Board | Claude Fable 5.1 | Claude Opus 5 | Higher |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena Elo (community votes) | 1,754.7 | 1,692.4 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LiveBench global average (0-100) | 83.4 | 80.1 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| SimpleBench AVG@5 % (private set) | 86.6 | 80.6 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LLM Stats LLM Stats Score · composite (0-100), their rendered top 15 | 54.5 | 54.8 | Claude Opus 5 |
| Vals AI Vals Index accuracy % · weighted finance + coding tasks | 68.8 | 67.2 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Artificial Analysis intelligence index · measured runs only | 53.4 | 50.8 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
Raw scores are each board's own scale, so compare within a row, not across rows. Full table: the bench index.
Claude Fable 5.1 at a glance
- Developer
- Anthropic
- Status
- Live since September 1, 2026
Live - sticker price held at $10/$50, but cache reads cut 75% to $0.25 = ~25% cheaper typical, up to ~45% agentic · 1M ctx · effort low-max.
Claude Fable 5.1 is live — the sticker price never moved, and the cache read fell 75%
2026-09-01 · Claude Fable 5.1 shipped today, alongside Claude Mythos 5.1. Our radar detected it at 17:52:22 UTC and confirmed it on the next sweep 60 seconds later.
Fable 5.1's August window has closed — the market now prices September at 78%, and one claim in the leak can't be checked at all
2026-08-20 · A claim going round today says Fable 5.1 is in pre-release testing, targeted at September, and running inside Anthropic's own products under the Fable 5 name. One part of that is checkable, one part is checkable and slipping, and one part is — by construction — invisible to anything we can measure.
Claude Opus 5 at a glance
- Developer
- Anthropic
- Status
- Live since July 24, 2026
Live — detected 16:51 UTC Jul 24, alert fired 61s later · superseded by Opus 5.5 on Sep 22 and moved to Anthropic's legacy list; still served at $5/$25, which is now MORE than its successor.
Claude Opus 5 is live — we detected it at 16:51 UTC and had alerts out 61 seconds later
2026-07-24 · Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 went live on the public API today. Our checkers saw the id appear at 16:51:33 UTC, confirmed it on the next 60-second sweep, and the alert blast went out at 16:52:34 — sixty-one seconds from first sighting to inbox.
Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 5: quick answers
Which is better, Claude Fable 5.1 or Claude Opus 5?
It depends on what you measure. Of the 6 public leaderboards that rate both, Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on 5 and Claude Opus 5 on 1. Claude Fable 5.1's widest lead is on LiveBench; Claude Opus 5's widest lead is on LLM Stats. On the ArtificialWatch Index, which takes the median of each model's percentile across the boards that score it, Claude Fable 5.1 is at 95.3 and Claude Opus 5 at 84.8 (out of 100).
Which is newer, Claude Fable 5.1 or Claude Opus 5?
Claude Fable 5.1. It went live on September 1, 2026, 39 days after Claude Opus 5 (July 24, 2026).
Who makes Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5?
Both are from Anthropic.
Where do these numbers come from?
Each score is the leaderboard's own published figure, read by ArtificialWatch (table composed September 24, 2026). Boards measure different things, so raw scores are only comparable within a row.
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