Claude Fable 5.2 vs. Opus 5.5: Same scores at almost 4x the cost

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2, which outperforms Claude Opus 5.5 on coding benchmarks but costs nearly four times more. Despite Fable's higher accuracy, Anthropic recommends Opus for most tasks due to its cost-effectiveness. Independent tests showed both models tied on some coding tasks, highlighting trade-offs between performance and price.