Claude Fable 5 Scores 16.1% on Remote Labor Index
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Claude Fable 5 achieved a 15.8% automation rate on the Remote Labor Index, a benchmark measuring how often AI agents complete real freelance projects at client-acceptable quality across 3D design, architecture, video, and other domains. The previous benchmark leader scored 4.17% eight months ago, meaning the frontier has quadrupled in less than a year, with Fable 5 roughly double the next model (Opus 4.8 at 8.3%). Human evaluators remain necessary for assessing absolute capability, as an automated AI judge overstated newer models' performance by 2–3 times despite correctly ranking them relative to each other.
Why it matters
CAIS and Scale report that Claude Fable 5 now scores 16.1% on the Remote Labor Index, a benchmark testing whether models can perform real freelance-style computer work, roughly doubling the next-best model.
