Claude Opus 5 lands in Cursor, matches Fable 5 on CursorBench at half the price
dean_rie · x · 2026-07-25
Claude Opus 5 is now available in Cursor.
Cursor says it matches Fable 5 on CursorBench at default effort (66.7 vs 66.5), costs about half as much, and supports Zero Data Retention — a notable combo for teams that care about both coding performance and enterprise data handling.
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