# Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 4.8

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in 9 of 10 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding, Coding › Agentic, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Vision, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

Claude Fable 5: $20 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in General LLM at #3 against #21.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Reasoning at #3 against #10.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Claude Fable 5 in Science at #27 against #56.
- Which to pick, Coding: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Coding at #6 against #12.
- Which to pick, Coding › Agentic: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Coding › Agentic at #6 against #12.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Coding › Web dev at #19 against #35.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Long context at #3 against #10.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Vision at #5 against #13.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Factuality at #7 against #24.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Abstraction (ARC) at #1 against #12.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 is near state of the art, rank #3 in General LLM (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).