Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 costs well below Fable 5 while matching or beating it across most benchmarks

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 61 points, edging out Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. The model scores highest in analytical quality and coding, and costs up to half as much as Fable 5 at lower reasoning tiers. But the race at the top remains close. The article Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 costs well below Fable 5 while matching or beating it across…