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Claude
Every Claude model reviewed in the directory.
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Anthropic's Mythos-class creative model
Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's Mythos-class model released on June 9, 2026, focused on creative writing, worldbuilding, and narrative depth. It was suspended from distribution on June 12, 2026, under US export controls, making it a limited-availability release.
Paid
Best for Creative Writing
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Anthropic's frontier model, currently first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's flagship model, released 24 July 2026 with a 1M-token context window and five selectable effort levels (low, medium, high, xhigh, max). Effort is the main control: output token spend runs roughly 8x from low to max, and Artificial Analysis measures a 407-Elo spread in task quality across that range, so the same model behaves like several different price and capability tiers. API pricing is $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output, with cache writes at $6.25 and cache hits at $0.50. It leads the Intelligence Index at 60.7 and tops the Coding Agent...
Freemium
Best Frontier Model Overall
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Anthropic's powerful enterprise model from May 2026
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's high-capability model released on May 28, 2026. It targets autonomous software engineering, long-document analysis, and complex reasoning with strong instruction following and extended context support.
Enterprise
Best for Enterprise Reasoning
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All models
| Model | Release date | Pricing | Modalities | Best For | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5 | Jul 7, 2026 | Paid | LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning | Best for Creative Writing | View → |
| Claude Opus 5 | Aug 4, 2026 | Freemium | LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning | Best Frontier Model Overall | View → |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | May 28, 2026 | Enterprise | LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools | Best for Enterprise Reasoning | View → |
| Claude Code | Feb 5, 2026 | Paid | IDEs & Coding Tools | Best for Terminal Development | View → |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Jun 30, 2026 | Freemium | LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools | Best for Everyday Agentic Work | View → |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Feb 6, 2026 | Enterprise | LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools | Best for Autonomy | View → |
| Claude Mythos 5 | Jun 9, 2026 | Enterprise | LLMs, Multimodal Reasoning | Best for Controlled Research | View → |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Apr 16, 2026 | Enterprise | LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools, Multimodal Reasoning | Best for Hard Coding Tasks | View → |
| Claude 4.6 Sonnet | Feb 6, 2026 | Paid | LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools | Best for Coding | View → |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Nov 24, 2025 | Enterprise | LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools | Best for Cost-Capability Tradeoffs | View → |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Oct 15, 2025 | Paid | LLMs, AI Assistants | Best for Fast, Low-Cost Agents | View → |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Sep 29, 2025 | Paid | LLMs, IDEs & Coding Tools | Best for Balanced Coding Agents | View → |