Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) vs Muse Glimmer (High)

Which is better for the money: Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) by Anthropic or Muse Glimmer (High) by Meta? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

AnthropicClaude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 49.60
Total cost: $11161

MetaMuse Glimmer (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 17.50
Total cost: $146

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) scores 32.1 points higher (49.6 vs 17.5) but costs 77× as much to run the benchmark ($11161 vs $146; flagship vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) when you need intelligence above 17.5, and Muse Glimmer (High) when 17.5 is enough.

Metric	Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback)	Muse Glimmer (High)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	49.6	17.5	−64.7% Muse Glimmer (High) is 64.7% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$11,160.86	$145.77	−98.7% Muse Glimmer (High) is 98.7% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	85.37s	24.78s	−71.0% Muse Glimmer (High) is 71.0% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$10.0 / $50.0	$0.30 / $1.20
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

Muse Glimmer (High) vs Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback): 64.7% less intelligence, 98.7% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 71.0% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) scores 57.60 for $8708.
Muse Glimmer (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Max) scores 38.10 for $122.

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