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Claude Opus 5: Half the Price, Better Benchmarks Than Fable 5

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, outperforming Claude Fable 5 on 7 of 12 shared benchmarks at half the price, according to the company. Anthropic framed Opus 5 as 'not more capable overall than Claude Fable 5,' but the benchmark data shows Opus 5 offers a significant capability jump over Opus 4.8 at a lower cost.

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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, and the benchmark numbers tell a more interesting story than the official announcement lets on. Anthropic’s framing — “not more capable overall than Claude Fable 5” — is technically accurate and practically misleading. Opus 5 outperforms Fable 5 on 7 of 12 shared benchmarks at half the price. If you are paying Fable 5 rates for coding or agentic workloads, that is a budget problem you can fix today. And if you are still on Opus 4.8, the capability jump is large enough that “routine upgrade” undersells it considerably. What Shipped The […]

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