Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic's previous flagship, now superseded by Fable 5.1. Kept in the editorial roster for inspection of its 16 published visual benchmark runs.
Verified model facts
Identity, limits, and pricing
- Status
- Current
- API model ID
claude-fable-5- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 128K
- License
- Not publicly verified
- Access route
- Not publicly verified
- Modalities
- Not publicly verified
- Hardware
- Not publicly verified
- API price / 1M tokens
- $10 input · $— cached input · $50 output
Same-prompt visual tests
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City Scroll Journey
Cinematic scroll journey testing AI-generated scene continuity, scroll-scrubbed camera motion, and art-directed landing craft.
Ember Glider
Sunset gliding journey testing flight energy management, checkpoint flow, and atmospheric scene craft.
Helm's Deep
Fortress siege scene testing scale, lighting, architecture, and cinematic atmosphere.
Hogwarts Broom Flight Simulator
Broom-flight scene testing depth, motion cues, castle scale, and fantasy mood.
Jabberwock
Dark fantasy encounter testing creature design, forest mood, and narrative staging.
Low-Poly Tower Defense
Diorama tower defense testing economy balance, wave design, placement rules, and combat readability.
Low Poly World
Stylized island build testing composition, color, and low-poly worldbuilding.
Mechanical Watch Simulator
Interactive watch movement testing mechanical legibility, accurate relative motion, and real-time 3D controls.
Neon Drift
Synthwave time-trial racing testing drift physics, lap timing, ghost replay, and unlock progression.
Office Life
Workplace vignette testing everyday scene logic, objects, and believable office detail.
Petri Dish
Microscopic ecosystem testing organic forms, scientific clarity, and cellular detail.
Starfall Arena
Neon arena survival testing wave escalation, upgrade builds, particle feedback, and boss design.
Stormwind Trebuchet Simulator
Counterweight siege simulation testing coupled mechanics, trajectory prediction, projectile cameras, and interactive tuning.
Universe Simulator
Cosmic system testing orbital structure, glowing bodies, scale, and simulation readability.
Vice City
Neon coastal city testing vehicles, architecture, atmosphere, and dense urban layout.
Yingzao Fashi Assembly
Timber assembly scene testing structure, joinery, construction order, and material clarity.
Prior generation runs
These 16 benchmarks were completed with a prior model version and are preserved for inspection.
Official benchmark profile
Published scores outside our visual tests
Comparable numeric rows from the Anthropic system card and the shared GPT-5.6 comparison table. Marketing-only claims such as ViBench and spreadsheet speedups are excluded unless a score is published.
SWE-bench Pro
80.0%SWE-bench Verified
95.0%Terminal-Bench 2.1
84.3%Full official benchmark table14 rows with source settings and peer charts
| Benchmark | Area | Score | Setting / comparison |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Pro | Coding | 80.0% | Average over 5 trials; standard configuration with thinking blocks included. |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coding | 95.0% | Average over 5 trials on the 500-problem verified subset. |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Agentic coding | 84.3% | Anthropic mini-SWE-agent harness at high effort; OpenAI’s shared table reports Fable at 83.1%. |
| FrontierCode Diamond | Agentic coding | 29.3% score / 30.2% pass | Mean@5 at xhigh reasoning effort on Cognition’s Diamond subset. |
| FrontierCode Main | Agentic coding | 46.3% score / 48.8% pass | Mean@5 at xhigh reasoning effort on Cognition’s Main subset. |
| CursorBench | Agentic coding | 72.9% | Cursor production agent harness at maximum effort. |
| GPQA Diamond | Academic reasoning | 92.6% | Shared GPT-5.6 comparison table. |
| FrontierMath Tier 1-3 v2 | Math | 87.0% | Shared GPT-5.6 comparison table. |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 | Math | 87.8% | Shared GPT-5.6 comparison table. |
| OSWorld-Verified | Computer use | 85.0% | Pass@1 averaged over 5 runs on 361 tasks with 100 action steps. |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | Spatial reasoning | 38.6% | Andon Labs standard harness; normalized composite floor-plan score. |
| OfficeQA Pro | Document reasoning | 57.9% | Databricks image-based OfficeQA Pro evaluation. |
| Finance Agent Benchmark v2 | Finance | 56.31% | Vals AI evaluation with adaptive thinking and max effort. |
| MCP Atlas | Office work | 83.3% | Pass rate on real-world MCP tool-use workflows. |
Editorial verdict
Where this model fits
Fable 5 led the S tier as the previous Anthropic flagship before Fable 5.1 replaced it. Its 16 published Superbash visual benchmark runs are preserved for inspection. The editorial placement is B because Fable 5.1 is now the recommended Anthropic flagship.
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Why it is ranked here
Evidence
Superbash editorial model ranking
Takeaway: Claude Fable 5 is currently placed in Tier B.
The August 2026 editorial roster places Claude Fable 5 at rank 11.
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