Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Fable 5.1 vs QwQ-32B

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic

69.0

Rank #2 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5.1 leads 76.7 to 23.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 47% for Claude Fable 5.1 and 5% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index69.039.8
Released2026-09-012024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked5236

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 74.7 (#1), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Coding15281333
FrontierCode50.9%—
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
CursorBench51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1744—
FrontierSWE56.3%—
SciCode63.1%—
GSO88.2%—
WeirdML92.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
MirrorCode73.3%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench2,143—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 50.7 (#5), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
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), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles47%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts15261325
Epoch Capabilities Index164.7137.6
ARC-AGI-290%—
NYT Connections (extended)90%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt31.1%—
EBR-Bench57.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
DTBench97.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LMCA65.5%—
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 89.6 (#4), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%59.2%
LMArena Math15251359
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)90.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 487.8%—
ProofBench100%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 69.6 (#6), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Expert15351324
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Humanity's Last Exam46.5%—
SimpleQA Verified70.8%—
Confabulations—15.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 53.9 (#4), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1318—
Blueprint-Bench 241.9%—
Furniture Assembly70%—
LMArena Document1513—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 59.1 (#3), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English15071305
LMArena Chinese15861378
LMArena French15251336
LMArena German15001313
LMArena Japanese15431262
LMArena Korean15341279
LMArena Russian15211297
LMArena Spanish15161354

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#6), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following15171297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 46.7 (#20), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query15221308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#2), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1QwQ-32B
LMArena Text15101329
LMArena Creative Writing15071288
EQ-Bench Creative Writing21621257
LMArena Multi-Turn14921314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than QwQ-32B?

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5.1 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 74.7 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5.1 and QwQ-32B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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