Anthropic's Claude models ranked by capability and cost. Haiku 4.5 is fastest and cheapest for quick tasks. Sonnet 5 handles coding and writing well. Opus 4.8 tackles complex reasoning. Fable-5 is the most powerful for hard problems.
Using the wrong Claude model can cost you time and quality. In this video, I'll show you which model to use for every type of task. At the bottom, in C-tier, I'm putting Haiku 4.5. It's fast, it's cheap, and it's great for quick chatting, brainstorming, or summarizing something short. It's also the lightest on your usage limit. Moving up to B-tier, you've got Sonnet 5. It can code, write, research, and reason really well, and it especially shines when you're doing front-end development. Just know it burns through your usage limit about 3x times faster than Haiku. Next, you've got Opus 4.8, definitely an A-tier model. This is the model you reach for when a problem actually needs deep thinking, like tricky architecture decisions or multi-step reasoning that takes real planning. It uses roughly 70% more tokens than Sonnet, so save it for problems that are genuinely hard enough to deserve it. And finally, in S-tier, you've got Fable-5, which is Anthropic's most capable model yet. It's built for the hardest problem-solving and development work out there. We're covering the details about Fable in our next video, so stay tuned and share this with someone who may need it.
