Model comparison

Claude Fable 5.1 vs Falcon-180B

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic

69.0

Rank #2 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher in 4 categories and Falcon-180B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5.1 leads 76.7 to 19.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5.1 and Falcon-180B specifications
Claude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
ProviderAnthropicTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index69.032.2
Released2026-09-012023-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked5216

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 74.7 (#1), Falcon-180B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
FrontierCode50.9%—
CursorBench51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1744—
FrontierSWE56.3%—
SciCode63.1%—
GSO88.2%—
WeirdML92.9%—
LMArena Coding1528—
MirrorCode73.3%—
ALE-Bench2,143—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 50.7 (#5), Falcon-180B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
APEX-Agents68.6%—
Remote Labor Index17.9%—
GDP.pdf29.6%—
Vending-Bench 25,422—

Reasoning Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 76.7 (#7), Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Hard Prompts15261007
Epoch Capabilities Index164.7112.13
ARC-AGI-290%—
NYT Connections (extended)90%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt31.1%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
EBR-Bench57.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
DTBench97.6%—
LMCA65.5%—
HellaSwag—89%
LAMBADA—79.8%
PIQA—84.9%
WinoGrande—87.1%

Math Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 89.6 (#4), Falcon-180B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)90.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 487.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1525—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 69.6 (#6), Falcon-180B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
Humanity's Last Exam46.5%—
SimpleQA Verified70.8%—
LMArena Expert1535—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—67.8%
BoolQ—89%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—64.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 53.9 (#4), Falcon-180B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Vision1318—
Blueprint-Bench 241.9%—
Furniture Assembly70%—
LMArena Document1513—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 59.1 (#3), Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Non-English15071000
LMArena Chinese1586—
LMArena French1525—
LMArena German1500—
LMArena Japanese1543—
LMArena Korean1534—
LMArena Russian1521—
LMArena Spanish1516—

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#6), Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Instruction Following15171047

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 46.7 (#20), Falcon-180B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Longer Query1522—

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#2), Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Text15101054
LMArena Creative Writing15071089
LMArena Multi-Turn14921013
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2162—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than Falcon-180B?

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5.1 and Falcon-180B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.

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