Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Fable 5 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.5 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 100% for Claude Fable 5.

Side by side

Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude Fable 5 specifications
Claude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Noometry Index29.066.8
Released2024-02-292026-06-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$50
Results tracked3062

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
WeirdML10.2%91.9%
LMArena Coding12231519
DeepSWE—69.9%
FrontierCode—53.5%
LMArena WebDev—1625
FrontierSWE—47%
SciCode—61%
GSO—78.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
MirrorCode—63.9%
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
ALE-Bench—2,041
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
APEX-Agents—63.6%
Remote Labor Index—16.1%
τ²-bench Banking—39.7%
PostTrainBench—41.8%
GBAEval—74.5%
GDP.pdf—30%
LMArena Search—1230
Vending-Bench 2—5,680

Reasoning Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Claude Fable 5: 76.8 (#6)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
LMArena Hard Prompts11971508
DTBench53.6%98.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7162.06
ARC-AGI-2—89.2%
SimpleBench—81.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—91.4%
NYT Connections (extended)—92.7%
ARC-AGI-1—98.5%
CritPt—28.6%
Chess Puzzles—41%
EnigmaEval—39.3%
EBR-Bench—39.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—52%
LMCA—61.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—95%
Bench to the Future 3—0.13
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%100%
LMArena Math12131519
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—87%
FrontierMath Tier 4—90.2%
ProofBench—95%
MATH Level 518.2%—
FrontierMath Erdős—0%

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
GPQA Diamond40.6%85.9%
LMArena Expert11731534
SimpleQA Verified—70.7%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
LMArena Vision9841324
Blueprint-Bench 2—38.6%
Furniture Assembly—35.8%
LMArena Document—1496

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
LMArena Non-English12051481
LMArena Chinese11891543
LMArena French12291505
LMArena German12041486
LMArena Japanese11311506
LMArena Korean11281488
LMArena Russian12271504
LMArena Spanish12041498

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
LMArena Instruction Following11991502

Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
LMArena Longer Query12111509

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetClaude Fable 5
LMArena Text12181491
LMArena Creative Writing11861494
LMArena Multi-Turn12271504
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1943
EQ-Bench 4—1340

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Claude Fable 5?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Claude Fable 5 better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude Fable 5 share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Claude Fable 5 has 62.

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