Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 at $10/$50 per million tokens, posting 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro vs GPT-5.5's 58.6%
Anthropic on June 9 made Claude Fable 5 generally available across its API, apps and subscription plans, the first public release from its new Mythos-class tier that sits above the Opus line.
At a glance
- Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to general availability on June 9, 2026, alongside restricted-access Claude Mythos 5
- Fable 5 API pricing is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, roughly 2x Claude Opus 4.8
- Fable 5 scored 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro versus 58.6% for OpenAI's GPT-5.5
- Fable 5 is the first model to break 90% on Anthropic's core analytics benchmark, a 10-point jump over Opus
- Misuse classifiers for cybersecurity, biology-chemistry and distillation fall back to Claude Opus 4.8; more than 95% of sessions involve no fallback
VERDICT — CONFIRMED
Anthropic on June 9 made Claude Fable 5 generally available across its API, apps and subscription plans, the first public release from its new Mythos-class tier that sits above the Opus line. Fable 5 shares underlying weights with Claude Mythos 5, a safeguards-lifted variant restricted to Project Glasswing government cybersecurity partners and vetted biology researchers, with a 30-day data-retention policy for Mythos-class usage. Pricing is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, roughly double Claude Opus 4.8.
Anthropic published benchmarks showing state-of-the-art results on nearly all tested suites, including 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro versus 58.6% for OpenAI's GPT-5.5, the top FrontierCode score among frontier models at medium effort, and the first result above 90% on its core analytics benchmark — a 10-point jump over Opus. Misuse classifiers covering cybersecurity, biology-chemistry and distillation route flagged sessions to Opus 4.8; the company says more than 95% of sessions trigger no fallback and that over 1,000 hours of external red-teaming produced no universal jailbreaks. Stripe reported Fable 5 completed a 50-million-line Ruby codebase migration in one day, an estimated two months of manual work.
The model went live same day on GitHub Copilot and Amazon Bedrock and is included in Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans at no extra cost through June 22.
Why it matters
the first generally available Mythos-class model resets the frontier price-performance baseline and puts immediate pressure on OpenAI and Google one day after OpenAI's S-1 disclosure.
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Key facts on file
- Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to general availability on June 9, 2026, alongside restricted-access Claude Mythos 5
- Fable 5 API pricing is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, roughly 2x Claude Opus 4.8
- Fable 5 scored 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro versus 58.6% for OpenAI's GPT-5.5
- Fable 5 is the first model to break 90% on Anthropic's core analytics benchmark, a 10-point jump over Opus
- Misuse classifiers for cybersecurity, biology-chemistry and distillation fall back to Claude Opus 4.8; more than 95% of sessions involve no fallback
- More than 1,000 hours of external red-teaming produced no universal jailbreaks
- Stripe reported a 50-million-line Ruby codebase migration completed in one day, estimated at two months of manual work
- Mythos 5 access is limited to Project Glasswing partners and select biology researchers, with 30-day data retention


