Anthropic's Fable 5.2 Completes About 41% of Real Freelance Jobs on Remote Labor Index

Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes about 41% of real freelance jobs at professional quality on the Remote Labor Index, a benchmark run by Scale AI's Scale Labs, The Decoder reported. When the benchmark launched about a year ago, the top system, Manus, completed 2.5% of jobs.

The next systems on the leaderboard are Anthropic's Opus 5.5 at 21.25% and OpenAI's GPT 6 Astra at 20.83%. Google's Gemini Argon 4 is fifth at 17.08%. In July, Fable 5 led at about 16%. Nearly 50 of Fable 5.2's successful completions were jobs no agent had solved before.

The benchmark uses 240 completed projects from Upwork freelancers, worth about $144,000 in total, ranging from video editing to CAD design, game development and data analysis. Trained human experts grade each result against the freelancer's original work. Scale Labs said Fable 5.2 still struggles with industrial product design and animation.