Model comparison
Claude Fable 5.1 vs Devstral Medium
Claude Fable 5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#2); Devstral Medium does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher in 2 categories and Devstral Medium in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5.1 leads 76.7 to 21.1.
- Devstral Medium is cheaper at $0.40 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.1.
- Claude Fable 5.1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
- Devstral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 69.0 | 30.1 |
| Released | 2026-09-01 | 2025-07-10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | 128K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $50 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 52 | 2 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Fable 5.1 leads
Claude Fable 5.1: 74.7 (#1), Devstral Medium: 24.3
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1744 | 1076 |
| FrontierCode | 50.9% | — |
| CursorBench | 51.8% | — |
| FrontierSWE | 56.3% | — |
| SciCode | 63.1% | — |
| GSO | 88.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 92.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1528 | — |
| MirrorCode | 73.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 2,143 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Fable 5.1: 50.7 (#5), Devstral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 68.6% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 17.9% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 29.6% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,422 | — |
Reasoning Claude Fable 5.1 leads
Claude Fable 5.1: 76.7 (#7), Devstral Medium: 21.1
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.7% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 90% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.5% | — |
| CritPt | 31.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 47% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 57.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1526 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 58% | — |
| DTBench | 97.6% | — |
| LMCA | 65.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 164.7 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Fable 5.1: 89.6 (#4), Devstral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 90.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 87.8% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1525 | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Fable 5.1: 69.6 (#6), Devstral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 46.5% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1535 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Fable 5.1: 53.9 (#4), Devstral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1318 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 41.9% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 70% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1513 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Fable 5.1: 59.1 (#3), Devstral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1507 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1586 | — |
| LMArena French | 1525 | — |
| LMArena German | 1500 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1543 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1534 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1521 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1516 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#6), Devstral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1517 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Fable 5.1: 46.7 (#20), Devstral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1522 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#2), Devstral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Devstral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1510 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1507 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2162 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1492 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than Devstral Medium?
Claude Fable 5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#2); Devstral Medium does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 or Devstral Medium?
Devstral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Claude Fable 5.1 lists at $10 and $50.
Is Claude Fable 5.1 or Devstral Medium better for coding?
Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 74.7 versus 24.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Fable 5.1 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5.1 and Devstral Medium share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Fable 5.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Devstral Medium has 2.