Model comparison

Claude Fable 5.1 vs Llama 3-70B

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic

69.0

Rank #2 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5.1 leads 89.6 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Fable 5.1 and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5.1 and Llama 3-70B specifications
Claude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index69.028.8
Released2026-09-012024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked5231

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 74.7 (#1), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
LMArena Coding15281206
FrontierCode50.9%—
CursorBench51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1744—
FrontierSWE56.3%—
SciCode63.1%—
GSO88.2%—
WeirdML92.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
MirrorCode73.3%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench2,143—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 50.7 (#5), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
APEX-Agents68.6%—
Remote Labor Index17.9%—
Cybench—5%
GDP.pdf29.6%—
Vending-Bench 25,422—

Reasoning Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 76.7 (#7), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts15261195
DTBench97.6%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index164.7122.93
ARC-AGI-290%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
NYT Connections (extended)90%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt31.1%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
EBR-Bench57.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
LMCA65.5%—
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 89.6 (#4), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%4.3%
LMArena Math15251218
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)90.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 487.8%—
ProofBench100%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 69.6 (#6), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
LMArena Expert15351149
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
Humanity's Last Exam46.5%—
SimpleQA Verified70.8%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 53.9 (#4), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1318—
Blueprint-Bench 241.9%—
Furniture Assembly70%—
LMArena Document1513—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 59.1 (#3), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English15071142
LMArena Chinese15861114
LMArena French15251232
LMArena German15001169
LMArena Japanese15431017
LMArena Korean15341017
LMArena Russian15211159
LMArena Spanish15161241

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#6), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following15171194

Long Context Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 46.7 (#20), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query15221174

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#2), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1Llama 3-70B
LMArena Text15101221
LMArena Creative Writing15071210
LMArena Multi-Turn14921223
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2162—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than Llama 3-70B?

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5.1 or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 74.7 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5.1 and Llama 3-70B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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