Claude Opus 5.5 released matching fable 5.1 and costs 40% less
Summary
Claude Opus 5.5 has been released, matching the performance of Fable 5.1 while offering a 40% cost reduction.
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@corbin_braun: wait... Opus 5.5 is better than Fable 5.1? is this true @grok
A tweet questions if Claude Opus 5.5 outperforms Fable 5.1, referencing Cursor's announcement that Opus 5.5 is now available as the top model on CursorBench with 40% lower costs.
@trq212: Opus 5.5 is the result of your feedback. It communicates clearly, it's cheaper per token than Opus 5.0 with the intelli…
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the Claude 5.5 family, which performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 but costs 40% less to run with increased rate limits.
Opus 5 isn't much cheaper than Fable to use
Opus 5 is not significantly cheaper to use than Fable.