Claude Fable 5.1 vs Qwen3.7-Max-Preview

  • Claude Fable 5.1 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1513 against 1475.
  • Qwen3.7-Max-Preview is cheaper: $1.48 / $4.42 per million input / output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.1.
  • On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Fable 5.1 wins 7 and Qwen3.7-Max-Preview wins 0.
LMArena text rating over time
14601468147514831490May 26Jun 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26
LatestQwen3.7-Max-Preview 1475

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Models (2/6)
  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • Qwen3.7-Max-Preview
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Qwen3.7-Max-Preview
The model
LabAnthropicAlibaba
Released2026-09-012026-05-21
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$10$1.48
Output, per 1M tokens$50$4.42
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1513#3 of 3511475#24 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1743#5 of 1241515#58 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1320#4 of 146—
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1531#7 of 3461497#29 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1532#3 of 3391488#23 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1510#3 of 3491448#35 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1528#3 of 3511482#35 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1519#4 of 3511460#40 of 351
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal58.08%#5 of 55—
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—68.80%#66 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works90.26%#6 of 11547.67%#63 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination90.52%#1 of 14387.06%#19 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions49.19%#2 of 7615.83%#54 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research55.29%#3 of 8525.48%#59 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes53.51%#8 of 10738.75%#70 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 13890.15%#25 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering92.38%#1 of 13889.31%#12 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text90.64%#1 of 93—
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal40.00%#6 of 42—

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Questions

Which is better, Claude Fable 5.1 or Qwen3.7-Max-Preview?

Claude Fable 5.1 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1513 against 1475. Qwen3.7-Max-Preview is cheaper: $1.48 / $4.42 per million input / output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.1. On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Fable 5.1 wins 7 and Qwen3.7-Max-Preview wins 0.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 or Qwen3.7-Max-Preview?

Qwen3.7-Max-Preview is cheaper: $1.48 / $4.42 per million input / output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.1.

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