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Cursor integrates Claude Fable 5 to hit a record 72.9% on CursorBench 3.1, costing up to $20 per task

The launch drew criticism for a reversed-axis cost chart

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Claude Fable 5 is now available in Cursor.

It sets a new state of the art on CursorBench at 72.9%, 8 points above the previous best.

10:10 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 1.1M Views
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Many users praised Claude Fable 5's record CursorBench performance in Cursor as impressive and enjoyable, while others criticized the evals dashboard for its reversed x-axis, added costs, and billing friction.

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Holy chart crime

Cursor@cursor_ai

Claude Fable 5 is now available in Cursor.

It sets a new state of the art on CursorBench at 72.9%, 8 points above the previous best.

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@drisspg ?

Top right is good. Bottom left bad. Top left smart but expensive.

This is totally normal?

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Cursor@cursor_ai

See how Claude Fable 5 compares across every model: http://cursor.com/evals

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Jacob Beers@JTBeers

@cursor_ai Why is the x axis backwards?

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Marco De Donno@stonksandgoats

@drisspg that’s the correct way to show a performance-efficiency curve

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Sherlock@thesherlocker

@theo @drisspg I think most people assume a cartesian quadrant system.

i.e, both X and Y axes start at 0 at the same point.

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kaloszer@kaloszer

@drisspg what's the crime? that price goes the other way? If you read the legend it's all understandable. Maybe the yellow color on white, that's my best guess?

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@cursor_ai We've been testing it for a week. Here are the best workflows: https://every.to/vibe-check/anthropic-mythos-our-fable-vibe-check

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piet@iampiet

@cursor_ai the more things change the more they stay the same

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ChickenSamosa@ChickenSamosaa

@drisspg Nah this is the standard for performance-to-cost charts.

Best models are to the top right.

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Melvin Vivas@DonvitoAI

@cursor_ai $20 per task is crazy

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Ali Romman@aliromman_

@cursor_ai The benchmarks are insane.

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Sami Hindi@DevBySami

@cursor_ai Use 5.5 high. Not fair to compare high to medium

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mark@r_marked

@drisspg Performance is obviously expected to go up as cost increases. Nobody is interested in the performance as cost approaches infinity, they are interested in how long performance holds up as cost approaches 0. Cost cannot go below 0

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Manish Baghel@ManishBaghelz

@drisspg I guess they thought making Composer appear on the rightmost side will be perceived as good.

Instead everyone thinks that thia chart is a crime.

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lost in latency@lostinlatencyX

@cursor_ai composer 2.5 is close to fable 5's lowest is what impresses me 😅

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Leon Lin@LexnLin

@ericzakariasson is low effort good enough? 😭

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Nischal@NischalSkanda

@cursor_ai This tells me everything that I needed to know! you guys are the best.

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@cursor_ai we need composer 3, Fable 5 cost api cost is too high

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echo.hive@hive_echo

@ericzakariasson I did and it is very impressive!

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