Model comparison

Claude Fable 5.1 vs DeepSeek Coder 33B

Claude Fable 5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#2); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic

69.0

Rank #2 Confirmed

DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek

38.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher in 1 category and DeepSeek Coder 33B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Fable 5.1 leads 74.7 to 38.0.
  • DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5.1 and DeepSeek Coder 33B specifications
Claude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index69.038.9
Released2026-09-012023-11-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked529

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 74.7 (#1), DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
FrontierCode50.9%—
CursorBench51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1744—
FrontierSWE56.3%—
SciCode63.1%—
GSO88.2%—
WeirdML92.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—42%
LMArena Coding1528—
MirrorCode73.3%—
BigCodeBench Complete—51.1%
ALE-Bench2,143—
HumanEval+—75%
MBPP+—70.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 50.7 (#5), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
APEX-Agents68.6%—
Remote Labor Index17.9%—
GDP.pdf29.6%—
Vending-Bench 25,422—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 76.7 (#7), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
Epoch Capabilities Index164.796.32
ARC-AGI-290%—
NYT Connections (extended)90%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt31.1%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
EBR-Bench57.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1526—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
DTBench97.6%—
LMCA65.5%—
WinoGrande—62%

Math Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 89.6 (#4), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)90.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 487.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1525—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—
GSM8K—35.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 69.6 (#6), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
Humanity's Last Exam46.5%—
SimpleQA Verified70.8%—
LMArena Expert1535—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—42.2%
MMLU—39.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 53.9 (#4), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Vision1318—
Blueprint-Bench 241.9%—
Furniture Assembly70%—
LMArena Document1513—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 59.1 (#3), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Non-English1507—
LMArena Chinese1586—
LMArena French1525—
LMArena German1500—
LMArena Japanese1543—
LMArena Korean1534—
LMArena Russian1521—
LMArena Spanish1516—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#6), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Instruction Following1517—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 46.7 (#20), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Longer Query1522—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#2), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Text1510—
LMArena Creative Writing1507—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2162—
LMArena Multi-Turn1492—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than DeepSeek Coder 33B?

Claude Fable 5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#2); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Fable 5.1 or DeepSeek Coder 33B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 74.7 versus 38.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5.1 and DeepSeek Coder 33B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Fable 5.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9.

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