Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5

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

Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary Frontier Dynamic Hybrid Reasoner parameters

Terminal-Bench 4.0 execution (70.6%), SWE-bench Verified coding (82.4%), GitHub Copilot multi-file edits, and low-latency autonomous agentic coding at $2/$10 pricing.

Metric Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Sonnet 5.5
SWE-bench Verified 82.8% 82.4%
MMLU-Pro 92.4% 88.4%
MATH-500 97.9% 95.2%
Context Window 1,500,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $12.00 $2.00
Output Pricing (per 1M) $60.00 $10.00