# Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41.3% of real freelance jobs in new benchmark

> Original title: Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41 percent of real freelance jobs, up from 2.5 percent a year ago

- Source: The Decoder
- Published: 2026-11-10T14:07:47.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/uqqqjbo7pg8i2shv5flhrt0cq
- Original: https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-fable-5-2-completes-41-percent-of-real-freelance-jobs-up-from-2-5-percent-a-year-ago/

## Summary

Scale Labs reports that Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completed 41.3% of jobs in its RLI benchmark, up from about 16% for Fable 5 in July and 2.5% for the top system when the benchmark launched a year earlier. The test uses 240 completed Upwork projects worth about $144,000, judged by human experts, and the source says the agent still struggles with industrial product design and animations.

## Why it matters

The source compares Fable 5.2 with prior systems on 240 paid Upwork projects, showing where agents still fail, which helps readers judge how close agents are to real freelance work.