Model comparison

Claude Fable 5.1 vs phi-3-medium 14B

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic

69.0

Rank #2 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5.1 leads 89.6 to 27.3.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5.1 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Claude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index69.029.7
Released2026-09-012024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked5213

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 74.7 (#1), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
FrontierCode50.9%—
CursorBench51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1744—
FrontierSWE56.3%—
SciCode63.1%—
GSO88.2%—
WeirdML92.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1528—
MirrorCode73.3%—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench2,143—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 50.7 (#5), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
APEX-Agents68.6%—
Remote Labor Index17.9%—
GDP.pdf29.6%—
Vending-Bench 25,422—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 76.7 (#7), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index164.7121.23
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%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 89.6 (#4), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)90.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 487.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1525—
MATH Level 5—17.6%
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 69.6 (#6), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond—27.6%
Humanity's Last Exam46.5%—
SimpleQA Verified70.8%—
LMArena Expert1535—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 53.9 (#4), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1318—
Blueprint-Bench 241.9%—
Furniture Assembly70%—
LMArena Document1513—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 59.1 (#3), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
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), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1517—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 46.7 (#20), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1522—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#2), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1510—
LMArena Creative Writing1507—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2162—
LMArena Multi-Turn1492—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5.1 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 74.7 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5.1 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Fable 5.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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