Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at a lower price
Anthropic says the new models beat Opus 5.5 on most tests, run up to 30% faster than 5.1, and cost $8 per million input tokens.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Anthropic (official)
Why it matters
Anthropic claims Opus-beating coding performance while pricing Fable 5.2 below its predecessor. That could pressure rivals on cost per completed task and push buyers to judge models on finished work rather than chat quality.
Anthropic said on November 9th that Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 are available now, pitching the pair as its strongest models for difficult technical work across coding, reasoning and vision.
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