Claude Fable 5.1 is Anthropic's flagship general-availability model, released on September 1, 2026 alongside the access-gated Claude Mythos 5.1, which ships the same underlying weights under a tighter safeguard regime. Both variants share the same underlying weights and the same max-effort configuration, with their entire differences traceable to a deployment-layer "safeguard tax" rather than any underlying capability gap. Fable 5.1 is distributed through the Claude apps, Claude Code, Claude Enterprise, the API, and Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry, making it widely accessible across consumer, developer, and enterprise surfaces.
The model is positioned as Anthropic's most capable system yet for coding, long-horizon knowledge work, and research-oriented tasks that earlier generations struggled to sustain. On the agentic Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 evaluation it reports 52.6%, more than double its predecessor at 24.7% and well ahead of Claude Opus 5 at 29.0% and GPT-5.6 Sol at 22.4%, while Terminal-Bench 4.0 lifts from 42.0% on Fable 5 to 55.8% on Fable 5.1, also surpassing Opus 5's 52.3%. These results frame Fable 5.1 as a leading model on the seven benchmarks Anthropic highlights, with research capabilities that the company describes as an early glimpse of how AI will contribute to scientific progress, and the "safeguard tax" framing helps buyers understand the same-weights gap to Mythos 5.1 as benchmark-specific rather than a universal capability cliff.