Claude Fable 5.1
anthropic/claude-fable-5.1-20260831
Claude Fable 5.1 is a text, image, and file input model that generates text outputs. It supports a 1,000,000 token context window, tool use, and reasoning.
- tool use
- structured outputs
- reasoning
At a glance
Specifications
What the API gives you
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 128K tokens
- Input price
- $10 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $50 / 1M tokens
- Cache read
- $0.25 / 1M tokens
- Modalities
- text, image, file → text
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Released
- Aug 29, 2026
Measured evidence
Public benchmark record
- Design Arena Coding
- 1336 Elo2026-10-20
- Design Arena Full-stack Agent
- 1326 Elo2026-10-14
- Design Arena UI
- 1340 Elo2026-10-20
- Design Arena Web-app Agent
- 1318 Elo2026-10-20
- Design Arena Website
- 1314 Elo2026-10-20
- FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)‡
- 90.2% ± 1.82026-09-01max effort, evaluated 2026-09-01
- LiveBench Agentic Coding
- 66.1%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Coding
- 86.4%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Data Analysis
- 80.3%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Instruction Following
- 73.0%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Language
- 89.5%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Math
- 97.0%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Reasoning
- 91.7%2026-10-18
- LMArena Agent‡
- 14.32026-10-19max effort
- LMArena Agent Bash Recovery‡
- 11.62026-10-08max effort
- LMArena Agent Steerability‡
- 14.82026-10-19max effort
- LMArena Agent Task Outcome‡
- 15.12026-10-19max effort
- LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination‡
- 0.72026-10-19max effort
- LMArena Creative Writing‡
- 1508 Elo2026-10-15max effort
- LMArena Instruction Following‡
- 1517 Elo2026-10-15max effort
- LMArena Long Query‡
- 1523 Elo2026-10-15max effort
- LMArena Math‡
- 1528 Elo2026-10-15max effort
- LMArena Search Factuality
- 1222 Elo2026-10-13
- LMArena Text‡
- 1502 Elo2026-10-15max effort
- LMArena Text Factuality‡
- 1498 Elo2026-10-15max effort
- LMArena Vision‡
- 1288 Elo2026-10-19max effort
- LMArena Vision Diagrams‡
- 1323 Elo2026-10-19max effort
- LMArena Vision OCR‡
- 1303 Elo2026-10-19max effort
- LMArena WebDev‡
- 1743 Elo2026-10-19max effort
- LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web‡
- 1722 Elo2026-10-19max effort
- OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)‡
- 100% ± 02026-09-01max effort, evaluated 2026-09-01
- SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)‡
- 70.8% ± 1.42026-09-01max effort, evaluated 2026-09-01
- Terminal-Bench (4.0)‡
- 57.9%2026-10-20Claude Code, max effort, evaluated 2026-09-03
LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference. ‡ Submitted scaffold plus model result. Compare the harness and effort settings, not only the model name.
Task evidence
How broad is the support?
Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.
- Best LLM for Competition MathEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 4 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Business WritingEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Marketing CopyEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Creative WritingEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Frontend & UIEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
Show all 45 tasks
- Best LLM for WritingEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for a General AssistantEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Math & ReasoningEstablished evidence
88% of intended weighted task evidence across 4 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingEstablished evidence
82% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Agentic CodingEstablished evidence
80% of intended weighted task evidence across 4 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Code CompletionEstablished evidence
79% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Autonomous AgentsEstablished evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for CodingEstablished evidence
64% of intended weighted task evidence across 4 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingEstablished evidence
64% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Image UnderstandingEstablished evidence
61% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Document SummarizationEstablished evidence
60% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for SummarizationEstablished evidence
60% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Fast SummariesEstablished evidence
58% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Value LLMEstablished evidence
58% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for AI AgentsEstablished evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 9 of 9 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Literary TranslationEstablished evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Everyday TranslationEstablished evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for TranslationEstablished evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Grounded RAGEstablished evidence
48% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Hermes AgentEstablished evidence
48% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for OpenHandsEstablished evidence
48% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for GooseEstablished evidence
48% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for OpenClawEstablished evidence
48% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Local LLM for CodingEstablished evidence
47% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeEstablished evidence
40% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Cheapest Capable LLMEstablished evidence
40% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputEstablished evidence
35% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionEstablished evidence
35% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Debugging & Code ReviewEstablished evidence
33% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for OCR & DocumentsProvisional evidence
65% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Structured-output eval or VLMEvalKit tasks. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Charts & DiagramsProvisional evidence
65% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Structured-output eval or VLMEvalKit tasks. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results. Official release evidence is also tracked provisionally.
- Best LLM for Vision & DocumentsProvisional evidence
60% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Structured-output eval or VLMEvalKit tasks. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Document ParsingProvisional evidence
58% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Structured-output eval or VLMEvalKit tasks. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results. Official release evidence is also tracked provisionally.
- Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextProvisional evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LongBench v2. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence
47% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Tool & Function CallingProvisional evidence
46% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or Structured-output eval. 6 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results. Official release evidence is also tracked provisionally.
- Best LLM for High-Volume ExtractionProvisional evidence
21% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Route reliability or Structured-output eval. 1 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Computer & Browser UseProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or OSWorld Verified. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results. Official release evidence is also tracked provisionally.
Official release evidence · provisional
What the launch material actually says
Verbatim claims from the model provider. These help on launch day but do not count as independent confirmation.
“The standout in Claude Fable 5.1 is the writing: more understandable, more meaningful, and it follows our writing guidance better.”
Anthropic · Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 \ Anthropic“Across our evaluation sets, our judges preferred Claude Fable 5.1's answers roughly 2-to-1 over Fable 5 on everyday knowledge questions, high-intent research, and drafting and artifact work”
Anthropic · Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 \ Anthropic“On our hardest browser-agent benchmark, Claude Fable 5.1 completed 82% of tasks in about 10 minutes each, against 74% for Opus 5 and 57% for Fable 5, while using fewer tokens than either.”
Anthropic · Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 \ Anthropic“In internal benchmarks, Claude Fable 5.1 solves more of our coding problems than Fable 5 or Opus 5, and achieves state of the art on trading intuition.”
Anthropic · Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 \ Anthropic
Recommendation coverage
Where this model appears
- #1Best LLM for Tool & Function Calling
- #1Best LLM for Competition Math
- #1Best LLM for Math & Reasoning
- #1Best LLM for Massive Context
- #2Best LLM for Agentic Coding
- #3Best LLM for Code Completion
- #3Best LLM for Literary Translation
- #3Best LLM for Charts & Diagrams
- #3Best LLM for Computer & Browser Use
- #3Best LLM for Everyday Translation
- #3Best LLM for Autonomous Agents
- #3Best LLM for Translation
- #3Best LLM for Coding
- #3Best LLM for a General Assistant
- #3Best LLM for Debugging & Code Review
- #3Best LLM for Logic & Problem Solving
- #3Best LLM for AI Agents
- #4Best LLM for Document Parsing
- #4Best LLM for Summarization
- #4Best LLM for Chat & Roleplay
- #4Best LLM for Vision & Documents
- #4Best LLM for Writing
- #4Best LLM for Document Summarization
- #4Best LLM for Frontend & UI
- #4Best LLM for Creative Writing
- #4Best LLM for Grounded RAG
- #4Best LLM for Roleplay & Character
- #5Best LLM for OpenHands
- #5Best LLM for OpenClaw
- #5Best LLM for Hermes Agent
- #5Best LLM for Business Writing
- #5Best LLM for Image Understanding
- #5Best LLM for Marketing Copy
- #5Best LLM for OCR & Documents
- #5Best LLM for Goose
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