Claude Opus 5 ranks just below Sol 6 and Fable 5 on LiveBench, but real-world tests lag
bindureddy · x · 2026-07-25
Bindu Reddy says Claude Opus 5 sits just below Sol 6 and Fable 5 on LiveBench, and that Anthropic appears to have “benchmaxxed” it.
He argues that initial real-world testing still puts Opus 5 below Fable 5 and Sol 6, especially in long-running loops that benchmarks miss.
Key claims
- LiveBench places Opus 5 just behind Sol 6 and Fable 5.
- In his tests, it performs below those models in real-world use.
- He says current benchmarks fail to capture long-horizon execution well.
- He also ranks Fable 5, Kimi K3, and Grok 4.5 as the top models in their price class.
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