Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 5.5

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic) against Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic).

Claude Fable 5.1

Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary Frontier parameters

Full-repository software refactoring, agentic tool workflows, formal verification, and 1.5M-token needle retrieval.

Claude Opus 5.5

Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary Frontier Reasoner parameters

Autonomous enterprise codebase migrations, GitHub Copilot multi-file edits, SWE-bench Pro issue resolution (89.9%), and CodeRabbit automated reviews.

Metric Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Opus 5.5
SWE-bench Verified 82.8% 89.9%
MMLU-Pro 92.4% 92.4%
MATH-500 97.9% 97.2%
Context Window 1,500,000 tokens 500,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $12.00 $4.00
Output Pricing (per 1M) $60.00 $20.00