Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5, Its Most Capable and Costly Model Yet

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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026, introducing a new model tier that sits above Opus in its lineup. The model offers a 1 million token context window and 128K max output, but comes at a steep price of $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output — double that of Opus 4.8. Fable 5 is derived from the Mythos model family, which drew attention earlier in the year for its ability to find and exploit security vulnerabilities; the public version ships with built-in safeguards. A notable behavioral change is that adaptive thinking is always enabled and cannot be turned off, meaning developers no longer control the thinking budget. For sensitive domains like cybersecurity and biology, requests that trip safety filters silently fall back to Opus 4.8, which developers must account for when building applications that depend on consistent model-tier reasoning.

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