Anthropic's most capable widely released model, built for the most demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work, with always-on adaptive thinking. It includes safety classifiers that can decline high-risk requests, with fallback to other Claude models.
Generally available since June 9, 2026 on the Claude API, Claude Platform on AWS, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry. Shares specs with the invitation-only Claude Mythos 5 offered under Project Glasswing.
Announced next steps from Anthropic that mention Claude Fable 5.
Ongoing 2026
Extend the model lineup and agentic products
Continue the rapid Claude release cadence, having followed Fable 5, Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 with Claude Fable 5.1 and the invitation-only Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, 2026, still the latest public models as of September 19, 2026, and deepen enterprise-grade agentic products - including Claude Code (auto mode now default from August 14, 2026), the Claude Cowork 'AI coworker,' the new Claude for Government FedRAMP High beta, and the newly launched Claude Science research workbench and Claude for Financial Services Excel plugin - with stronger admin, analytics and spend controls, plus broader reach through the Claude Partner Network. Reuters reported September 18 that Anthropic is considering a new model to counter OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, which Ramp put at about 13 percent of tracked enterprise AI spending versus about 8 percent for Claude Fable; Anthropic declined to comment and no name, date or model card has been announced.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, the first model in its Claude 5.5 family. The company says it matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most work, costs 40% less than Opus 5 on typical workloads, and is priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. It is generally available on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry, with Fable-class biology and cybersecurity safeguards; Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are due in the coming weeks.
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google all reported elevated error rates across their flagship AI products on September 3, 2026. OpenAI detected issues across ChatGPT and Codex at about 10:58 UTC affecting 15 and 4 components respectively, with mitigations applied within about 24 minutes, while Anthropic reported elevated errors on Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5 across Claude AI, the API, Claude Code and Claude Cowork, with impact ending by 16:16 UTC. Users also reported errors and failed generations on Google's Gemini during the same window.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and the invitation-only Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, 2026, describing them as its most capable models yet for coding, knowledge work and long-running research. Pricing holds at $10/$50 per million input/output tokens, but cache-read pricing drops 75% to $0.25 per million tokens. Fable 5.1 can now identify software vulnerabilities in source code and cuts Claude Code cybersecurity false positives by roughly 60%, while Mythos 5.1, restricted to vetted cybersecurity and life-sciences researchers, posts Anthropic's strongest cyber capability score yet while still landing in the low-risk tier of its Frontier Compliance Framework.
Anthropic said around August 20 it plans to change the mandatory 30-day data retention policy it applies to enterprise customers of its most capable models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after months of pushback from corporate customers over control of proprietary data. The revised system, developed with more than 100 regulated-industry customers and set to roll out in fall 2026, keeps the 30-day retention requirement for safety monitoring but lets customers store that data on their own cloud infrastructure instead of Anthropic's. The original policy had drawn public criticism from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Palantir CEO Alex Karp and White House AI adviser David Sacks.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, a model it says approaches the frontier intelligence of its top-tier Claude Fable 5 at half the cost, priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, the same price as the Opus 4.8 model it replaces. The company positioned Opus 5 as the default everyday choice for agentic coding, knowledge work, computer use and complex reasoning, where it scores higher than Opus 4.8, and added a control that lets users dial the model's effort between low, medium and high. Fable 5 remains Anthropic's most capable public model, with a restricted Mythos 5 tier sitting above both.
Anthropic said late on June 30 that the U.S. Department of Commerce had removed the export controls it imposed on June 12 on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, letting the company restore global access to Fable 5 from July 1 (with Mythos 5 returning to approved U.S. organizations). The June freeze followed a cybersecurity finding after Amazon researchers demonstrated a jailbreak that could prompt Fable 5 to identify software vulnerabilities. Anthropic said it would deepen government collaboration - prereleasing frontier models for federal review - and had built a new safety classifier and an industry jailbreak framework alongside Amazon, Microsoft and Google.