Models/Anthropic/Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5

Fable 5 is Anthropic’s long-run Claude. 310B on /models Top Weekly (#38). Thinking stays on. Continuum hosts claude-fable-5. It is the wrong default for ordinary coding.

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Identity

1,000,000Context in
128,000Context out
2026-06-09 (OpenRouter created)Released
ProprietaryWeights
Canonical name
Claude Fable 5
Aliases
fable, best, claude-fable-5, continuum/claude-fable-5
Continuum hosted id
claude-fable-5
OpenRouter slug
anthropic/claude-fable-5
Hugging Face
None (closed or unpublished)
Modalities
text, image, file
Plan mapping
On Max / Team premium / Enterprise premium, Fable can draw at most 50% of the weekly Claude pool (Anthropic support, read 19 Aug 2026). That slice is not extra capacity.
Closed weights Hosted on Continuum Vendor lab

Mythos-class Claude. OpenRouter copy: built for autonomous knowledge work and coding; text, image, and file in; text out; 1M context. Continuum picker ids often prefix continuum/; the gateway id is the bare claude-fable-5.

In Claude Code, /model fable and the best alias resolve here when the org has access. Effort ladder is low, medium, high, xhigh, max. Default effort is high. Thinking cannot be turned off. Tool use, structured outputs, prompt caching, and Batch API ship with the first-party SKU.

Anthropic launched Fable 5 on 9 Jun 2026, disabled it on 12 Jun after a US export-control directive, and redeployed it on 1 Jul 2026. Source: Anthropic’s Fable 5 / Mythos 5 post, read 19 Aug 2026.

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Should I use this for coding agents

Use Fable when the job is larger than one sitting: a multi-file design that has to stay coherent overnight, or a bug that already beat Sonnet and Opus once. Do not use it as the model you leave selected all week.

DeepSWE official (mini-swe-agent, 113 tasks, Best / All effort levels table) puts Fable at 70% Pass@1 ±4% at max, $21.63 per task, 119k output tokens, 88 steps. Opus 5 is 74% at $11.84. Sol is 73% at $8.39. Fable is not the accuracy leader on this board, and it is the most expensive row we fetched.

DeepSWEmini-swe-agent
70%±4%
bench
DeepSWE
version
v1.1
split
public 113 tasks
harness
mini-swe-agent
effort
max
n
113
metric
Pass@1
value
70%
ci
±4%
$/task
$21.63
tokens
119k out
steps
88
independent as of 2026-08-13 source
Artificial Analysispublished integer
62
bench
Artificial Analysis
version
Intelligence Index
harness
published integer
metric
Intelligence Index
value
62
independent as of 2026-08-19 source
Vals Indexvals.ai card
66.04%
bench
Vals Index
version
hero index
harness
vals.ai card
metric
Vals Index
value
66.04%
independent as of 2026-08-19 source

vals.ai Fable 5 card, fetched 19 Aug 2026: Index 66.04% ±1.03, $28.80 per Index test, 37 min 51 s latency. Those are Index-page extras, not DeepSWE, and not hero chips. The per-bench bars on that HTML were placeholders (0.0%) in this fetch. We will not invent SWE-bench or Terminal-Bench percents from them.

Ranked view: Best coding models: the independent leaderboard puts this row and every other card that carries an independent coding score on one board, with the confidence intervals left visible.

Named benches, printed only

Copied from AA or vals HTML we opened. 0.0% placeholder bars are omitted. Do not average these into the hero tiles, and do not invent CI, $/task, or steps for Artificial Analysis.

BenchPrintedNoteSourceURLAs of
GDPval-AA v2 61.9% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid (Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5). Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5 source 2026-08-19
τ³-Banking 38.1% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid (Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5). Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5 source 2026-08-19
Terminal-Bench v2.1 84.6% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid (Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5). Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5 source 2026-08-19
SciCode 60.2% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid (Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5). Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5 source 2026-08-19
Humanity's Last Exam 55.5% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid (Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5). Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5 source 2026-08-19
GPQA Diamond 92.6% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid (Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5). Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5 source 2026-08-19
CritPt 28.6% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid (Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5). Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5 source 2026-08-19
AA-Omniscience Accuracy 65.4% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid (Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5). Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5 source 2026-08-19
AA-LCR 76.7% Printed on the AA Intelligence Evaluations grid (Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5). Not a DeepSWE chip. Artificial Analysis Claude Fable 5 source 2026-08-19
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When not to use it

Trust this before you buy

  • Default effort (high) is already expensive. Max is the DeepSWE row. If you have not tried Sonnet 5 at high, do not start here.
  • Sibling: Sonnet 5 is the working default ($2 / $10 per million, hosted claude-sonnet-5). Opus 5 is the reasoning step before Fable ($5 / $25, 74% DeepSWE).
  • Closed weights. You cannot retain or air-gap the parameters. If procurement needs an open checkpoint, this card is a no.
  • On Max, Fable is capped at half the weekly pool. It can strand you on Sonnet while the week is not actually empty.

Get Plus if you want Continuum to host Fable after the Claude weekly slice is gone. Not a Mac download.

04

Artifact

Weights

Anthropic does not publish Fable 5 weights. There is no official Hugging Face repo and no Files button on this page. Get Plus buys hosted inference, not a local checkpoint.

  • Capabilities on the first-party SKU: tool use, structured outputs, prompt caching, Batch API, adaptive thinking that stays on.
  • OpenRouter lists six hosts for anthropic/claude-fable-5 (Anthropic, Claude Platform on AWS, Amazon Bedrock, Azure BYOK, Google Vertex, Google Vertex Europe). We will not reprint their latency table.
  • OpenRouter Performance, fetched 19 Aug 2026: best-provider P50 3.46s latency and 65 tok/s throughput. Weighted average paid price $2.807 / $49.97 per million (cache makes effective input far below the $10 list).
  • OpenRouter catalog, fetched 19 Aug 2026: cache write $12.50 /M, 1-hour cache write $20.00 /M, web search $0.01 per call. Cache read stays $1.00 /M. These write fees are why a cold Fable turn is not the $10 list.
  • Anthropic’s data-retention policy does not allow zero data retention. OpenRouter surfaces that consent banner on the Fable page.

What you can open

Lab card and OpenRouter listing only. No Hugging Face Files button, because there is no official repo to point at.

Fetched OpenRouter catalog on 2026-08-19. hugging_face_id was empty.

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Continuum serving

Continuum hosts claude-fable-5 on the live public allowlist fetched 19 Aug 2026. Plus and above. First-party Claude Code still bills your Anthropic plan.

We will not list fifteen OpenRouter providers. Six hosts exist on that page today; Continuum is a seventh path with a hosted id. If you want an aggregator, the slug is anthropic/claude-fable-5.

Continuum hosted id claude-fable-5

click to select

We list first-party and OpenRouter, plus Continuum only when the live public allowlist named the id. This is not a 15-host routing table.

06

Economics

DeepSWE official cost at the cited max effort is $21.63 per task. That is the hero economics number, because it includes the harness, the step count, and the output tokens (119k).

Official Anthropic pricing.md (canonical URL after redirect: platform.claude.com), fetched 19 Aug 2026: Fable 5 base input $10 / MTok, 5-minute cache writes $12.50 / MTok, 1-hour cache writes $20 / MTok, cache hits & refreshes $1 / MTok, output $50 / MTok. Batch API is half: $5 / $25 per million. Sonnet 5 on the same table is $2 / $10. Opus 5 is $5 / $25.

OpenRouter catalog and Continuum rate card, 19 Aug 2026, reprint the same list pair ($10 / $50) plus image input $1.00 /M and web search $0.01 per call on the catalog. Those extras are OR fields, not extra Anthropic columns.

OpenRouter’s paid-vs-list gap is the cache: weighted average input $2.807 /M against a $10 list, output essentially $50. Do not treat $10 as what a cached agent run pays.

Price this model Opens the pricing calculator preloaded with Claude Fable 5.

On a Claude plan? The plan picker models the weekly caps.

Artificial Analysis cost/speed footnote, fetched 19 Aug 2026 from their Fable 5 page: list $10 / $50, about $3.14 per AA task and 71.1 tok/s. AA’s own title is “Claude Fable 5 (with fallback)”; the meta description names Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback. That is AA’s evaluation config, not a Continuum hosted alias. Intelligence Index v4.1.1 is nine evals. The integer 62 is the tile. The nine printed Index percents from live currentModel sit in the named-benches table, not as extra hero chips. Do not average AA cost with DeepSWE.

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Provenance

ClaimSourceAs of
DeepSWE 70% ±4% at maxDeepSWE official board2026-08-13
Official Fable 5 $10 / $12.50 5m write / $20 1h write / $1 hits / $50 out; batch $5 / $25Anthropic pricing.md (platform.claude.com)2026-08-19
OR catalog reprints $10 / $50 plus image $1.00/M and web search $0.01OpenRouter Fable 5 page + catalog2026-08-19
Six OR hosts; P50 3.46s / 65 tok/s; weighted paid $2.807 / $49.97OpenRouter Fable 5 Providers + Pricing + Performance2026-08-19
AA title “Claude Fable 5 (with fallback)”; meta names Opus 4.8 Fallback; Index 62; nine currentModel Index percents in named-benchesArtificial Analysis Claude Fable 52026-08-19
vals Index 66.04% ±1.03; $28.80/test; 37 min 51 svals.ai Claude Fable 52026-08-19
Fable is 50% of weekly pool on Max/premiumAnthropic: Claude Fable 5 on your plan2026-08-19
Launch 9 Jun 2026; disabled 12 Jun; redeployed 1 JulAnthropic: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 52026-08-19
Hosted id claude-fable-5GET /v1/chat/hosted/models/public2026-08-19
OpenRouter id anthropic/claude-fable-5, context 1,000,000OpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
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Compare, FAQ, and Get Plus

Same official DeepSWE harness (mini-swe-agent, public 113 tasks), fetched 2026-08-19. Different effort labels are the lab's own setting on that board, shown here rather than normalized.

Continue through Anthropic's model family with Claude Opus 5.

FAQ

Why is Fable below Opus on DeepSWE if it costs more?

The official board is one harness and one split. Fable is built for long autonomous runs, not for winning a 113-task software-engineering set at any price. On this board Opus is both cheaper per task and slightly ahead. That is why the when-not block exists.

Is Fable a Continuum-only model?

No. Anthropic serves it. Continuum hosts the same id for Plus and above. Claude Code on your own Anthropic login is still first-party.

Why does the lab blog disagree with DeepSWE or Scale?

Lab posts pick a harness, an effort, a split, and sometimes a private eval set. DeepSWE publishes the official mini-swe-agent row with cost, tokens, and steps. Scale SWE-bench Pro only counts when the public shared-harness board has a row we can fetch. A higher lab number is usually a different test, not a better one.

OpenAI-compatible call

Verified against the live public allowlist on 2026-08-19. Base URL is https://continuumcode.ai/v1. Keys are cont_sk_ from Settings, Account, Inference API. Personal keys need Plus or above.

curl https://continuumcode.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONTINUUM_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"claude-fable-5","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Review this diff."}]}'

Get Plus if you want Continuum to host Fable after the Claude weekly slice is gone. Not a Mac download.