Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Claude Fable 5.1

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic

69.0

Rank #2 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Fable 5.1 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5.1 leads 89.6 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 100% for Claude Fable 5.1.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Claude Fable 5.1 specifications
Claude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Noometry Index29.569.0
Released2024-02-292026-09-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$50
Results tracked4652

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Claude Fable 5.1: 74.7 (#1)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
WeirdML19.2%92.9%
LMArena Coding12641528
FrontierCode—50.9%
CursorBench—51.8%
LMArena WebDev—1744
FrontierSWE—56.3%
SciCode—63.1%
GSO—88.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
MirrorCode—73.3%
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
ALE-Bench—2,143
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Claude Fable 5.1: 50.7 (#5)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
APEX-Agents—68.6%
Remote Labor Index—17.9%
Cybench10%—
GDP.pdf—29.6%
METR Time Horizons29.5%—
Vending-Bench 2—5,422

Reasoning Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Claude Fable 5.1: 76.7 (#7)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
Chess Puzzles5%47%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451526
DTBench61.6%97.6%
LMCA17%65.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91164.7
ARC-AGI-2—90%
SimpleBench23.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)—90%
ARC-AGI-1—97.5%
CritPt—31.1%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
EBR-Bench—57.1%
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—58%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Claude Fable 5.1: 89.6 (#4)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%100%
LMArena Math12731525
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—90.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—87.8%
ProofBench—100%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—
FrontierMath Erdős—0%

Knowledge Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Claude Fable 5.1: 69.6 (#6)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
SimpleQA Verified12.6%70.8%
LMArena Expert12231535
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam—46.5%
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Claude Fable 5.1: 53.9 (#4)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
LMArena Vision10231318
Blueprint-Bench 2—41.9%
Furniture Assembly—70%
LMArena Document—1513

Multilingual Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Claude Fable 5.1: 59.1 (#3)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
LMArena Non-English12581507
LMArena Chinese12481586
LMArena French12751525
LMArena German12581500
LMArena Japanese12041543
LMArena Korean11871534
LMArena Russian12801521
LMArena Spanish12461516

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#6)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
LMArena Instruction Following12481517
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Claude Fable 5.1: 46.7 (#20)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
LMArena Longer Query12591522

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#2)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text12621510
LMArena Creative Writing12351507
LMArena Multi-Turn12751492
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—2162
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Claude Fable 5.1?

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Claude Fable 5.1 better for coding?

Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 74.7 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Claude Fable 5.1 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Claude Fable 5.1 has 52.

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