wake up Anthropic just dropped a new model
Anthropic launched Fable 5.1 alongside Mythos 5.1 today. They use the same underlying model, but have different safeguards. Only Fable 5.1 is generally available.
High level stats: 1M token context window, 128K max output, June 2026 knowledge cutoff
Biggest improvements (according to Anthropic): long-running coding, scientific research, computer use, document creation, and complex workflows involving multiple tools
Improved Benchmark results (vs. Fable 5):
Terminal-Bench-Science: 52.6% vs 24.7%
Terminal-Bench 4.0: 55.8% vs 42.0%
AutomationBench: 31.4% vs 17.1%
GDPval-AA: 1,853 vs 1,723
CursorBench: 73.4% vs 70.5%
OSWorld strict: 41.7% vs 36.1%
Worse Benchmark results:
ARC-AGI-1: 97.5%, slightly below Fable 5 at 98.5%
ARC-AGI-2: 90.0%, below Opus 5 at 90.42% and GPT-5.6 Sol at 92.5%
SWE-bench Multimodal: 54.7%, below Opus 5 at 59.4%
HealthBench Professional: 62.1%, slightly below Fable 5 at 63.3%
Base pricing is unchanged:
Input: $10 per million tokens
Output: $50 per million tokens
5-minute cache writes: $12.50 per million tokens
1-hour cache writes: $20 per million tokens
The major change is cache reads:
$1.00 → $0.25 per million tokens
And most excitingly, approximately 60% fewer cyber-safeguard interventions per Claude Code session