Claude Fable 5 vs
Claude Opus 4.8

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Models in this comparison

Provider identity and evidence state stay balanced across the pair.

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Model type
Proprietary
Evidence state
Supported evidence
Published context
1,000,000
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Model type
Proprietary
Evidence state
Supported evidence
Published context
1,000,000

Key implications

Broad shared-metric coverage. Each finding is tied to a published metric, price, context, or modality fact.

  1. Across compatible supported BenchLM categories, Claude Fable 5 has higher scores in Agentic, Coding, and Overall; Claude Opus 4.8 has a higher score in Knowledge.
  2. Input API price: Claude Opus 4.8 has the lower verified rate ($5 / 1M tokens vs $10 / 1M tokens).
  3. Output API price: Claude Opus 4.8 has the lower verified rate ($25 / 1M tokens vs $50 / 1M tokens).

Shared metric view

The radar is a per-axis relative view; exact values and units remain available in its adjacent table.

Per-axis relative view: each axis scales to the higher published value for that exact shared metric. The table preserves the exact published values and units.
  • Claude Fable 5: solid line
  • Claude Opus 4.8: dashed line
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.8 shared metric radarAgenticCodingKnowledgeOverall
Exact published values used in the per-axis relative radar chart.
MetricClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 4.8Unit
Agentic75.5461.78score
Coding81.4171.98score
Knowledge67.486.8score
Overall83.1576.6score

Source metrics

Friendly metric names and published units stay visible. Missing measurements remain unavailable rather than becoming a score.

Source metric comparison
MetricUnitClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 4.8
Agenticscore75.5461.78
Codingscore81.4171.98
Knowledgescore67.486.8
MathscoreUnavailable66.8
MultimodalGroundedscore60.885.4
ReasoningscoreUnavailable68.3
Overallscore83.1576.6

Agentic

Unit
score
Claude Fable 5
75.54
Claude Opus 4.8
61.78

Coding

Unit
score
Claude Fable 5
81.41
Claude Opus 4.8
71.98

Knowledge

Unit
score
Claude Fable 5
67.4
Claude Opus 4.8
86.8

Math

Unit
score
Claude Fable 5
Unavailable
Claude Opus 4.8
66.8

MultimodalGrounded

Unit
score
Claude Fable 5
60.8
Claude Opus 4.8
85.4

Reasoning

Unit
score
Claude Fable 5
Unavailable
Claude Opus 4.8
68.3

Overall

Unit
score
Claude Fable 5
83.15
Claude Opus 4.8
76.6

Pricing and context

Verification is shown beside each selected route. Missing facts remain Not verified.

Route pricing and context comparison
FieldUnitClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 4.8
Input API priceUSD / 1M tokens$10$5
Cached input API priceUSD / 1M tokens$1Not verified
Output API priceUSD / 1M tokens$50$25
Route contexttokens1,000,0001,000,000
Input modalitiespublished listNot verifiedNot verified
Output modalitiespublished listNot verifiedNot verified

Input API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Fable 5
$10
Claude Opus 4.8
$5

Cached input API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Fable 5
$1
Claude Opus 4.8
Not verified

Output API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Fable 5
$50
Claude Opus 4.8
$25

Route context

Unit
tokens
Claude Fable 5
1,000,000
Claude Opus 4.8
1,000,000

Input modalities

Unit
published list
Claude Fable 5
Not verified
Claude Opus 4.8
Not verified

Output modalities

Unit
published list
Claude Fable 5
Not verified
Claude Opus 4.8
Not verified

Evidence provenance

Source records, route identity, timestamps, and methodology are consolidated here without declaring either model a winner.

Publication time
Aug 30, 2026, 2:15 AM UTC
Freshness
Stale — Published weekly benchmark evidence has not refreshed within 8 days.
Methodology
benchlm: benchlm_raw_composite
Model records
  • Claude Fable 5 — source benchlm · artifact models · model claude-fable-5
  • Claude Opus 4.8 — source benchlm · artifact models · model claude-opus-4-8
Selected price routes
  • Claude Fable 5 — route benchlm:claude-fable-5 · source benchlm · provider anthropic
  • Claude Opus 4.8 — route benchlm:claude-opus-4-8 · source benchlm · provider anthropic

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