Claude Fable 5.1 tops Code Arena with 1765 pts, 77-pt lead over Qwen

burny_tech · x · 2026-09-03

LMArena announced that Anthropic's Fable 5.1 (Max) has taken the #1 spot on Code Arena: WebDev with 1765 points, beating second-place Qwen3.8-Max-0902 by 77 points and third-place Opus 5 (Max) by 78 points.

It's a major jump from Fable 5 (Max), which sat at #8 with 1628 points. With a blended price of $40/MToken, it also pushes out the Pareto frontier in the higher-priced tier, raising the performance bar substantially. The release came alongside Claude Mythos 5.1, billed as the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work.

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