Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Fable 5

  • Claude Fable 5.1 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1513 against 1491.
  • They cost about the same: $10 / $50 and $10 / $50 per million input / output tokens.
  • On the 10 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Fable 5.1 wins 8 and Claude Fable 5 wins 2 (Claude Fable 5.1: Terminal-Bench 4.0, LiveCodeBench, Tax Agent Bench).
LMArena text rating over time
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LatestClaude Fable 5 1491

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • Claude Fable 5
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Claude Fable 5
The model
LabAnthropicAnthropic
Released2026-09-012026-06-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$10$10
Output, per 1M tokens$50$50
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1513#3 of 3511491#12 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1743#5 of 1241624#24 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1320#4 of 1461325#1 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1531#7 of 3461518#10 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1532#3 of 3391516#8 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1510#3 of 3491493#6 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1528#3 of 3511507#10 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1519#4 of 3511502#8 of 351
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal58.08%#5 of 5541.41%#12 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—95.00%#7 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works90.26%#6 of 11590.35%#4 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination90.52%#1 of 14389.78%#2 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions49.19%#2 of 7638.28%#11 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research55.29%#3 of 8549.52%#8 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes53.51%#8 of 10756.07%#4 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not93.43%#9 of 13893.18%#10 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering92.38%#1 of 13891.50%#3 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text90.64%#1 of 9389.31%#3 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal40.00%#6 of 4215.71%#12 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Claude Fable 5.1 or Claude Fable 5?

Claude Fable 5.1 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1513 against 1491. They cost about the same: $10 / $50 and $10 / $50 per million input / output tokens. On the 10 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Fable 5.1 wins 8 and Claude Fable 5 wins 2 (Claude Fable 5.1: Terminal-Bench 4.0, LiveCodeBench, Tax Agent Bench).

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 or Claude Fable 5?

They cost about the same: $10 / $50 and $10 / $50 per million input / output tokens.

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