Fable 5 and Opus 5 feel surprisingly close to me especially for coding. I had a weird Ul bug where Fable 5 spent around 1.5 hours debugging with logs and tests but still couldn’t fix it. I gave the same issue to Opus 5 and it fixed it almost immediately. also had a pretty complicated authentication bug that both Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol couldn’t solve. Opus got it right on the first try. Fable 5 is still my go to and honestly a really good model. But towards the end of the month when my usage gets low I switch to Opus and I barely notice a difference. Opus does get sidetracked more often and I feel like you have to prompt it a bit differently. But apart from that I think it’s just as good. Fable 5 was also removed from the $20 plan last month so I can’t use it personally anymore. submitted by /u/Additional-Alps-8209
Originally posted by u/Additional-Alps-8209 on r/ClaudeCode