Anthropic's frontier reasoning model for complex software engineering and agentic workflows.
Anthropic's Mythos-class flagship for ambitious, long-running professional work.
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Based on the Capability Index, Claude Fable 5 scores higher (91.6 vs 81.4). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Claude Opus 4.5 has a lower blended cost. Claude Opus 4.5: $5.00 input / $25.00 output. Claude Fable 5: $10.00 input / $50.00 output.
Claude Fable 5 has a larger context window: Claude Opus 4.5 supports 200K tokens vs Claude Fable 5 at 1M tokens.
Yes, both Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Fable 5 support vision/image input.
Key differences: Claude Fable 5 has a notably higher capability index (10.2 point gap). Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Fable 5 for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.