Claude Opus 5 Outscores Fable 5 on Most Benchmarks—At Half the Price

Here is the latest from the digital-asset markets: In brief Claude Opus 5, released July 24, costs $5 per million input tokens—identical to its predecessor Opus 4. 8 and exactly half the price of Fable 5—while outperforming Fable 5 on most major benchmarks. 3% on Frontier-Bench v0.

1, an agentic coding evaluation, versus 33. 7% for Fable 5 and 34. 4% for OpenAI's GPT-5.

6 Sol; on ARC-AGI-3, a novel problem-solving benchmark, it scored 30. 8%—a gap that's not close. The new model is the default on Claude Max and the strongest on Claude Pro, effectively replacing Fable 5 as the go-to for most subscribers.

This shift continues to shape the digital-asset landscape, with analysts examining its near-term effects.