Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first model in its new Mythos class. It leads nearly every benchmark, including SWE-bench Verified at 95 percent, but costs twice as much as Opus 4.8 at 10 or 50 dollars per million tokens. Strict safety filters block about nine percent of requests, and a new 30-day data retention policy applies even to zero-data-retention contracts.

Anthropic said the new version, called Claude Fable 5, will have safeguards to prevent misuse in fields like cybersecurity.

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday, a Mythos-class model with safeguards blocking cybersecurity and biology queries, priced at $10 per million input tokens.