Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Codellama 70b Instruct

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 5 categories and Codellama 70b Instruct in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5 leads 76.8 to 20.1.
  • Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and Codellama 70b Instruct specifications
Claude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index66.833.7
Released2026-06-07—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked627

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1625—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
GSO78.4%—
WeirdML91.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.7%
LMArena Coding1519—
MirrorCode63.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—49.6%
ALE-Bench2,041—
HumanEval+—65.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
APEX-Agents63.6%—
Remote Labor Index16.1%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
PostTrainBench41.8%—
GBAEval74.5%—
GDP.pdf30%—
LMArena Search1230—
Vending-Bench 25,680—

Reasoning Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 76.8 (#6), Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts15081052
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
SimpleBench81.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt28.6%—
Chess Puzzles41%—
EnigmaEval39.3%—
EBR-Bench39.5%—
Mystery Game Puzzles52%—
DTBench98.4%—
LMCA61.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Bench to the Future 30.13—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.06—

Math Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench95%—
LMArena Math1519—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
GPQA Diamond85.9%—
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
LMArena Expert1534—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Vision1324—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1481992
LMArena Chinese1543—
LMArena French1505—
LMArena German1486—
LMArena Japanese1506—
LMArena Korean1488—
LMArena Russian1504—
LMArena Spanish1498—

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following15021024

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), Codellama 70b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1509—

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Codellama 70b Instruct
LMArena Text14911057
LMArena Creative Writing1494—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
EQ-Bench 41340—
LMArena Multi-Turn1504—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Codellama 70b Instruct?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5 or Codellama 70b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Codellama 70b Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 70b Instruct has 7.

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