Opus 5.5 benchmarks: beats Fable 5.1 and GPT 6 Astra at half the price
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-23
Blogger @bridgemindai shared Opus 5.5 benchmark results (secondhand, pending official verification):
- Claims it beats Fable 5.1 and GPT 6 Astra across the board in agentic coding, knowledge work, reasoning, computer use, and visual recognition
- Priced at half of Fable 5.1
- Verdict: Anthropic finally shipped a frontier model that is smart enough to lead and affordable enough to actually use; testing in progress
Related event: Claude Opus 5.5 Launches to Top Rankings with Lower Price and Faster Speed(28 posts)→
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