Model comparison
Claude Fable 5.1 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 43.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5.1 leads 89.6 to 38.8.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.1.
- Claude Fable 5.1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 69.0 | 43.0 |
| Released | 2026-09-01 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Max output | 128K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $50 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 52 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Fable 5.1 leads
Claude Fable 5.1: 74.7 (#1), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1528 | 1440 |
| FrontierCode | 50.9% | — |
| CursorBench | 51.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1744 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 56.3% | — |
| SciCode | 63.1% | — |
| GSO | 88.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 92.9% | — |
| MirrorCode | 73.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 2,143 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Fable 5.1: 50.7 (#5), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1526 | 1428 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 90% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.5% | — |
| CritPt | 31.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 47% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 57.1% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 58% | — |
| DTBench | 97.6% | — |
| LMCA | 65.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 164.7 | — |
Math Claude Fable 5.1 leads
Claude Fable 5.1: 89.6 (#4), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1525 | 1440 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 90.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 87.8% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude Fable 5.1 leads
Claude Fable 5.1: 69.6 (#6), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1535 | 1417 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 46.5% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Fable 5.1: 53.9 (#4), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1318 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 41.9% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 70% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1513 | — |
Multilingual Claude Fable 5.1 leads
Claude Fable 5.1: 59.1 (#3), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1507 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1586 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1525 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1500 | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1543 | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | 1534 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1521 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1516 | 1435 |
Instruction Following Claude Fable 5.1 leads
Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#6), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1517 | 1389 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Claude Fable 5.1 leads
Claude Fable 5.1: 46.7 (#20), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1522 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5.1 leads
Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#2), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1510 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1507 | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1492 | 1416 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2162 | — |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 43.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 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 Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 74.7 versus 42.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Fable 5.1 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5.1 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.