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Claude Fable 5.1

As of Nov 9, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 ranks #3 of 7 on Bug Bench with a relative bug rate of 0.88 (12% fewer counted bugs than average), statistically tied with GPT-6 Astra.

Relative bug rate
0.88
Rank of 7
#3
Tied with
GPT-6 Astra

1.00 = average · lower is better

Provider
Anthropic
Released
Sep 1, 2026
Price per 1M tokens
$10 in · $50 out
First seen
Week of Aug 31

Nearby in the ranking

Claude Fable 5.1 and the models ranked closest to it, by relative bug rate.
RankModelRate
1GPT-6 Luna
0.31
2GPT-6.1 Sol
0.74
3Claude Fable 5.1
0.88
4= (statistically tied)GPT-6 Astra
0.95
5Claude Sonnet 5.5
1.04

Is Claude Fable 5.1 getting worse?

Not enough weekly data yet (0 of 6 weeks).

Where it does better or worse

# = rank among models

By coding agent

Claude Fable 5.1 relative bug rate by coding agent.
RankAgentRate
1Claude Code
0.88

By language

Claude Fable 5.1 relative bug rate by language.
RankLanguageRate
5TypeScript
1.05
3JavaScript
1.09
3Python
0.83
4Go
1.27
4Rust
1.34
1Ruby
0.41
2PHP
2.53
6SQL
1.12
2Shell
0.69
1Vue
0.40
2Terraform
0.82

How widely Claude Fable 5.1 is used

Share of AI-written code reviewed by cubic
Latest weekWeek of Nov 2
2.8%
Peak weekWeek of Sep 14
19.0%

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Questions and answers

Is Claude Fable 5.1 good for coding?
Claude Fable 5.1 ranks #3 of 7 on Bug Bench, with 12% fewer counted bugs than average (0.88) from Jul 20 to Nov 8, 2026.
Is Claude Fable 5.1 getting worse?
Not enough weekly data yet (0 of 6 weeks).
Which coding agent has the lowest bug rate with Claude Fable 5.1?
Claude Code, at 0.88.
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