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Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 5.5

Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 9 tasks where both are listed: Claude Fable 5.1 is a tier higher in 1 of 9 shared tasks, Claude Opus 5.5 in 2, they share a tier in 4.

Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic's highest-priced Claude tier, positioned for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work.

Vendor: Anthropic
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
Released: 1 Sep 2026
API price: $10 in / $50 out per 1M tokens
License: proprietary
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Claude Fable 5.1

Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic's Opus-tier Claude model for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work.

Vendor: Anthropic
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
Released: 22 Sep 2026
API price: $4 in / $20 out per 1M tokens
License: proprietary
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Claude Opus 5.5

Task by task

Task	Claude Fable 5.1	Claude Opus 5.5	Higher tier
Chat & assistants Models	S1,502 on LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	S1,508 on LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Search & research Models	S1,233 on LMArena Search Arena (style control) · Cloud	A1,211 on LMArena Search Arena (style control) · Cloud	Claude Fable 5.1
Writing Models	S1,485 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) · Cloud	S1,519 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Documents & OCR Models	–No public result yet · Cloud	–No public result yet · Cloud	—
Coding Models	A1,742 on LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) · Cloud	S1,806 on LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) · Cloud	Claude Opus 5.5
Image understanding Models	S1,286 on LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	S1,293 on LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Vector graphics & logos Models	C1,300 on Design Arena SVG · Cloud	C1,332 on Design Arena SVG · Cloud	Same tier
Browser & computer agents Models	–No public result yet · Cloud	–No public result yet · Cloud	—
Workflow automation Models	C59.4% on AutomationBench-AA (Artificial Analysis) · Cloud	A69.5% on AutomationBench-AA (Artificial Analysis) · Cloud	Claude Opus 5.5

A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.

Same benchmark, both results

Benchmark	Claude Fable 5.1	Claude Opus 5.5	Snapshot
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Composite index over Artificial Analysis' own evaluation suite, higher is better	53 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max, Default Fallback)	58 Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)	18 Oct 2026
AutomationBench-AA (Artificial Analysis) Score: average share of each task's objectives completed across 657 business-workflow tasks in 40 simulated SaaS apps via REST APIs; a task with any guardrail (business-rule) violation scores zero, higher is better	59.4% Claude Fable 5.1 (Max, Default Fallback)	69.5% Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)	19 Oct 2026
Design Arena SVG Elo rating from crowdsourced blind pairwise votes on SVG markup that models generate from a prompt (icons, illustrations, diagrams, artistic compositions), higher is better	1,300 Claude Fable 5.1	1,332 Claude Opus 5.5	19 Oct 2026
EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3 Elo score from LLM-judged pairwise comparisons of creative-writing outputs (rubric score shown alongside), higher is better	2,162 claude-fable-5-1	2,050 claude-opus-5-5	24 Sep 2026
LMArena Search Arena (style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on search-grounded answers, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,233 claude-fable-5.1-high	1,211 claude-opus-5.5-medium	13 Oct 2026
LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes, style-controlled default view), higher is better	1,502 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)	1,508 Claude Opus 5.5 (High)	15 Oct 2026
LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes, creative-writing prompts only, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,485 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)	1,519 Claude Opus 5.5 (High)	15 Oct 2026
LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on image + text prompts, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,286 claude-fable-5.1-max	1,293 claude-opus-5.5-high	9 Oct 2026
LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on web-app generation), higher is better	1,742 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)	1,806 Claude Opus 5.5 (Max)	18 Oct 2026
ParseBench (models) Overall: mean of five rule-based dimension scores (tables, charts, content faithfulness, semantic formatting, visual grounding) on ~2,000 human-verified enterprise pages, higher is better	78.9% Anthropic Fable 5.1	79.8% Anthropic Opus 5.5 (Effort High)	9 Oct 2026