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Claude Opus 5 Is Here: Near Fable 5 Performance at Half the Price (2026)
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Claude Opus 5 Is Here: Near Fable 5 Performance at Half the Price (2026)
A month after the Fable 5 saga, Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 5 — and it's the model most people will actually use every day. Instead of chasing the absolute frontier, Opus 5 delivers near-Fable 5 quality at Opus speed and cost, making frontier-class AI affordable for real work. Here's what it does, the benchmarks, and how Indians should use it.
These are the numbers Anthropic and independent reviewers reported at launch — Opus 5 tops the field on several, while costing half of Fable 5:
📊 Claude Opus 5 vs the frontier (higher = better)
3× the next-best model
beats Fable 5 (33.7)
new SOTA
📊 Claude Opus 5 — new value leader (July 2026)
| ★ WinnerClaude Opus 5 | Claude Fable 5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Claude Opus 4.8 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-3novel problem-solving | 30.2%★ | — | 7.8% | 1.5% |
| Frontier-Bench v0.1agentic terminal coding | 43.3%★ | 33.7% | 34.4% |
| Model | Price /1M (in/out) | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5 | $10 / $50 | The absolute hardest tasks (top tier) |
| Claude Opus 5 | $5 / $25 | Daily driver — near-frontier at half the cost |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | cheaper | Fast, everyday coding & writing |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | cheapest | High-volume, low-cost tasks |
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| GDPval-AA v2complex knowledge work | 1861★ | 1747 | 1736 | 1593 |
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| OSWorld 2.0computer use | 70.6%★ | 66.1% | 62.6% | 55.7% |
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| BrowseCompagentic search | 90.8%★ | 87.4% | 90.4% | 84.3% |
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| API price /1Minput / output | $5 / $25half of Fable | $10 / $50 | high | $5 / $25 |
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It fixes its own errors mid-task
claude.ai (Pro/Max) or the API
Default on Max; select on Pro
Low = cheap/fast, high = deep work
Coding, agents, analysis
It fixes its own errors mid-task