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Releases from frontier labs, major companies and research institutes — grouped by model, deduplicated across HuggingFace, OpenRouter and official blogs.

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Claude Fable 5.2

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 is reported to rank first on Artificial Analysis and is available through the API at 8 dollars per million input tokens and 40 dollars per million output tokens. Its highest reasoning level, max, failed to return an image in the author's SVG test.

Week of October 5, 20261 model

Claude Haiku 5.5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Fast, low-cost model with reasoning effort levels from low to max that cannot be turned off. It costs the same as GPT-6 Luna up to 100,000 tokens, and the price rises above that.

Week of September 28, 20261 model

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

The source is a release note for the llm-anthropic 0.30 plugin that lists Claude Sonnet 5.5 as supported. The sources say nothing about the model's capabilities or intended uses.

Week of September 21, 20261 model

Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Anthropic's Opus 5.5 costs $4 input and $20 output per million tokens, 20 percent below Opus 5.0, with cache reads 60 percent cheaper. Anthropic says it communicates more clearly and is more token efficient, but a blogger's SVG test at max effort hit the output limit twice.

1 variantBatch

Week of August 31, 20261 model

Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Claude Fable 5.1 improves on Claude Fable 5 across the board, with the biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agentic workflows, and knowledge work: long code refactors, front-end and visual...

1 variantBatch

Week of July 20, 20261 model

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

The source lists only Claude Opus 5's price of $5 per million input and $25 per million output tokens. It does not document Opus 5's capabilities or intended uses, because the article covers Opus 5.5.

1 variantBatch

Week of June 29, 20261 model

Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max,...

1 variantBatch

Week of June 8, 20261 model

Claude Fable 5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

Anthropic's new top flagship — replaces the Opus tier as the strongest generally available model. Arena Elo 1508 (rank 1). 1M context, Adaptive Thinking always on, $10/$50 per MTok. Fable 5 + Mythos 5 (invite-only) launched together on June 9, 2026.

Week of May 25, 20261 model

Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

Current Opus-tier model (until Claude Fable 5). Arena Elo ~1490. 1M context, Adaptive Thinking, knowledge through Jan 2026. $5/$25 per MTok direct, similar on OpenRouter.

Week of January 26, 20261 model

Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

A few generations before Fable 5 — but in thinking mode Arena Elo 1502, rank 3 worldwide. Still relevant for setups where Extended Thinking is desired and Fable 5's Adaptive Thinking isn't enough.