Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
The strongest all-rounder in the world right now, by human preference.
#1 Overall#1 Coding
Ranked #1 of 402 on LMArena’s overall board (style control) · retrieved 2026-09-19
The numbers
Arena Score (LMArena, style control)1505.7 (1500.9–1510.4, 30,057 votes)
Coding board score1552.4 (#1, 8,040 votes)
Price per 1M tokens in/out (LMArena)$10 / $50
Context window~1M
LicenseProprietary
Exact source entries: LMArena “claude-fable-5-high”, retrieved 2026-09-19.
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Best at
- #1 overall on LMArena (Arena Score 1506) across 30,000+ blind human votes
- #1 on LMArena's coding board (1552) — the model people prefer for real coding work
- 1,000,000-token context window
Not the pick for
- Premium pricing: $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output
- Newer variants have fewer votes, so the score band is wider than veterans like Opus 4.6
Choose it if you are
Demanding creative, analytical and technical work where being right matters more than being cheap.
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