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Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)

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Winner summary

Claude Fable 5.1 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·Claude Fable 5.1
Hype vs Reality
Claude Fable 5.1
#24 by perf·#11 by attention
UNDERRATED
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
#176 by perf·#9 by attention
OVERHYPED
Best value
4.8x better value than Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
Claude Fable 5.1
2.3 pts/$
$30.00/M
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
0.5 pts/$
$90.00/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Fable 5.1Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Fable 5.1 leads by +0.4
Claude Fable 5.1
53.4
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
53.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
53.453.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Fable 5.1$10.00$50.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$200.00
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.6 (Fast)$30.00$150.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$600.00