Post-Cutoff

AnthropicClaude 5 familyCurrentReasoning modelReleased 9 Nov 2026

Claude Mythos 5.2

The unrestricted variant of Fable 5.2 for defensive cybersecurity and biomedical research.

Model idclaude-mythos-5-2

Price$8 in, $40 out per 1M tokens

Checked9 November 2026

Knows up to June 2026

1,712events after its cutoff

79 historic, 388 major. 132 days of news.

It launched on 9 November 2026, already missing 1,709 of them.

Five things it has never heard of

How to call it

2 ways to use Claude Mythos 5.2, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Claude Mythos 5.2
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
Anthropic (Cyber Verification Program / Life Sciences Verification Program) claude-mythos-5-2 anthropic.com
Claude Security (Claude Enterprise) claude.ai

Pricing

Prices for Claude Mythos 5.2
Input$8 per 1M tokens
Output$40 per 1M tokens

As published: “per 1M tokens (USD); fast mode $16 / $80 (Verification Program members only)”.

Source: anthropic.com, checked 9 November 2026.

Specs

Input
Text, images and PDF
Output
Text
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Training cutoff
June 2026
Released
9 November 2026
Status
Current
Type
Reasoning model

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Vulnerability discovery

    CVE Rediscovery (1,829 published CVEs): 89.6%, 10.2% more vulnerabilities than Opus 5.5 and 14.4% more than Mythos 5.1; Mozilla says it roughly doubled Mythos 5.1’s discovery metrics on Firefox. CyScenarioBench 76.3%.

    Source: anthropic.com

  • Whole-capsid structure prediction

    Wrote a method on top of OpenFold3-preview2 and ESMFold2 that predicts whole AAV capsid structures from overlapping chain groups plus known symmetry; 28 of 34 capsids within 3 Å in Anthropic’s tests.

    Source: anthropic.com

  • Lower sandbox-escape propensity

    In a 1,800-scenario adversarial sandbox evaluation it used planted out-of-sandbox credentials in 3.1% of scenarios, versus 21% for Mythos 5.1 and 39% for Mythos 5; automated behavioral audit score 2.67 (lower is better) vs 3.28 for Mythos 5.1.

    Source: anthropic.com

Four assistants, one scale

Claude Mythos 5.2 is added as a fifth row. Each row runs from what the model knows (graphite) through the months between its cutoff and its launch (hatched) to today (pink).

  1. GPT-6 Astra 271 at launch, 1,780 today
  2. Claude Opus 5.5 372 at launch, 1,712 today
  3. Gemini 4 Argon 1,121 at launch, 1,806 today
  4. Grok 4.7 387 at launch, 1,746 today
  5. Claude Mythos 5.2 1,709 at launch, 1,712 today
Show as a table
ModelCutoffReleasedMissing at launchMissing today
GPT-6 AstraApril 20263 September 20262711,780
Claude Opus 5.5June 202622 September 20263721,712
Gemini 4 ArgonMarch 202613 October 20261,1211,806
Grok 4.7May 202621 September 20263871,746
Claude Mythos 5.2June 20269 November 20261,7091,712

Notes

Same underlying model as Claude Fable 5.2 without its cybersecurity and biology classifiers; access only for vetted organizations through Anthropic’s Cyber and Life Sciences Verification Programs, and inside Claude Security for Enterprise customers.