Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.5

Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5GA
9.5
AI Panel
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.8GA
9.2
AI Panel
OpenAI
GPT-5.5GA
8.7
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderAnthropicAnthropicOpenAI
Family / tierClaude 5 · FableClaude 4 · OpusGPT-5 · Pro
StatusGAGAGA
Released2026-06-082026-05-272026-04-22
Knowledge cutoff2025-12

Architecture & context

Context window1M1M1.1M
Max output tokens128K128K128K
Input modalitiestext, image, filetext, imagetext, image
Reasoning modealwaysalwaysoptional
Open weightsNoNoNo

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input$10$5$5
Output$50$25$30
Cached input$1$0.5$0.5
Batch input$5$2.5$2.5
Free tierNoNoNo

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)6068.7
Time to first token (s)0.564
Latency tierslowmediumslow

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputsNoNoNo
LicenseProprietaryProprietaryProprietary
CloudsBedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI FoundryBedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI FoundryAzure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry
ComplianceSOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001SOC2, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA

AI Panel scoring

Unified score9.59.28.7
Decision Maker9.599
Domain Strategist9.598.8
Finance Lead78.57
Domain Practitioner9.59.59.2
Power User999
Skeptic7.587.8
Value score6.586.5

Benchmarks

MMLU-Pro92.4
GPQA Diamond93.693.6
SWE-bench Verified9588.688.7
MMMU81.2
TAU-bench98
Terminal-Bench8874.682.7
MRCR Long Context74
Humanity's Last Exam41.4
LMArena Elo1476
Artificial Analysis Index60

Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.