# Bad Influence story: Arena adds Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 to its leaderboards, ranks it first in WebDev

Active · 3 articles · 1 source · First reported 11-09 14:58. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/baad6b48-ea4b-4bea-b7ef-21605dd43435

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Latest update (11-09 19:19): Arena ranks Claude Fable 5.2 first in Code Arena WebDev

Overview: Arena adds Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 to Agent Arena and Code Arena for testing, and says Agent Arena scores will follow. Agent Arena measures models on long-horizon agentic tasks using web search, filesystem and terminal tools.

Arena says Fable 5.2 (xHigh) ranks first in its Code Arena WebDev leaderboard with 1,832 points, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 (Max) at 1,818, Gemini 4 Carbon (High) at 1,768 and GPT-6 Astra (Max) at 1,767. Arena also says the model is up to 30% faster than Fable 5.1 and priced at $8/$40 per million tokens, down from $10/$50.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-09 19:19 · Arena · [Arena ranks Claude Fable 5.2 first in Code Arena WebDev](https://badinfluence.news/items/hvtfbmq8guu3qqt4g6mpwof98)
2. 11-09 18:52 · Arena · [Arena ranks Claude Fable 5.2 first in Code Arena WebDev](https://badinfluence.news/items/kh7ww221lj7ck2yv1xll8d2l2)
3. 11-09 14:58 · Arena · [Arena adds Claude Fable 5.2 to Agent Arena and Code Arena for testing](https://badinfluence.news/items/la883qsjwvguxjy3ka4819orm)
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