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Claude Fable 5
by Anthropic
CLOSEDHOSTEDWRITING HELPCODING HELPBRAINSTORMINGCOMPLEX REASONING
RANKED #52 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #89 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.3 · 1,187 VOICES
A fast AI assistant from Anthropic built for writing, coding, and problem solving.
HAPPY8.6
145 mentions
SAD6.4
111 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 2,222 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Anthropic hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Claude Fable 5 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS6.9
Kimi K3MoonshotPick it for near-frontier reasoning and long-horizon coding without closed-model costs.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE1.7k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS5.4
Llama 4 MaverickMetaGo-to community favorite for fast, efficient everyday coding and visual tasks.💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE1.9k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users love Claude Fable 5 for its fast responses, great writing, and strong coding skills, feeling it is worth the price. However, many complain about frequent outages, high costs on some platforms, and overly strict refusals.
1013 POSTS · 174 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · REDDIT · BLUESKY · X · GITHUB · DEV.TO · DEV FORUMS · LEMMY · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (14 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (10 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (10 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (10 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (8 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
14 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
10 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- WritingPEOPLE LOVE THIS
10 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 10 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
3 thumbs up · 8 thumbs down
- SpeedMOSTLY POSITIVE
3 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Scaling self-verification with DeepSeek V4 Flash beats Claude Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, while being 11x cheaper.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Claude Fable 5 very slow and very expensive on GitHub copilot.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Claude Fable 5 refuses ~97% of biology questions.”
- FROM BLOG >
“This addresses a key concern I had in the mistreatment of “safety” in the release, and props to Anthropic for a quick change, but it does not fully address the trust that has been broken.”
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GLM 5.3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-06-09 · 1945 UPVOTESIt's over. Claude Fable 5 one-shots horror game live
It's over. Claude Fable 5 one-shots horror game live
- REDDIT · 2026-06-30 · 1260 UPVOTESClaude Mythos 5/Fable 5 export restrictions lifted
Claude Mythos 5/Fable 5 export restrictions lifted
- REDDIT · 2026-06-30 · 939 UPVOTESDepartment of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We’ll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an…
Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We’ll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
- REDDIT · 2026-06-13 · 936 UPVOTESRIP Claude Fable 5 (June 9, 2026 – June 12, 2026)
RIP Claude Fable 5 (June 9, 2026 – June 12, 2026)
- REDDIT · 2026-06-11 · 616 UPVOTESDifferences Between Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 on MineBench
Differences Between Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 on MineBench
- REDDIT · 2026-08-17 · 550 UPVOTESAnthropic Has Finished Training Mythos 2 But Does Not Currently Plan To Release It. Focus Is Now On Internal Improvements.
Anthropic Has Finished Training Mythos 2 But Does Not Currently Plan To Release It. Focus Is Now On Internal Improvements.
- REDDIT · 2026-07-19 · 483 UPVOTESI distilled the leaked Claude Fable 5 system prompt into a clean, universal 500-token Markdown engine for ChatGPT and Gemini. No bloat.
I distilled the leaked Claude Fable 5 system prompt into a clean, universal 500-token Markdown engine for ChatGPT and Gemini. No bloat.
- REDDIT · 2026-06-30 · 478 UPVOTESAnthropic says Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are coming back tomorrow
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are coming back tomorrow
- REDDIT · 2026-06-09 · 471 UPVOTES8 months ago, we gave AI models money to invest
8 months ago, we gave AI models money to invest
- REDDIT · 2026-07-01 · 457 UPVOTESClaude Fable 5 officially available worldwide.
Claude Fable 5 officially available worldwide.
- REDDIT · 2026-07-18 · 443 UPVOTESClaude on X: "Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard…
Claude on X: "Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for…
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-07-16 · 396 UPVOTES$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol