Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Command A

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index. Command A costs 4.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 9 categories and Command A in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5 leads 76.8 to 18.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 91.4% for Claude Fable 5 and 28.8% for Command A.
  • Command A is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.
  • Claude Fable 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 256K.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and Command A specifications
Claude Fable 5Command A
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index66.836.5
Released2026-06-072025-03-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M256K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$10$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$50$10
Results tracked6224

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), Command A: 27.2 (#322)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Command A
LMArena Coding15191330
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
Aider Polyglot—12%
LMArena WebDev1625—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
GSO78.4%—
WeirdML91.9%—
MirrorCode63.9%—
ALE-Bench2,041—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), Command A: 35.9 (#40)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Command A
APEX-Agents63.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—57.1%
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), Command A: 18.3 (#283)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Command A
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%28.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081326
DTBench98.4%61.3%
LMCA61.1%10.3%
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
SimpleBench81.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt28.6%—
Chess Puzzles41%—
EnigmaEval39.3%—
EBR-Bench39.5%—
Mystery Game Puzzles52%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Bench to the Future 30.13—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.06—

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), Command A: 36.2 (#171)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Command A
LMArena Math15191300
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench95%—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), Command A: 37.1 (#159)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Command A
LMArena Expert15341295
GPQA Diamond85.9%—
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), Command A: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Command A
LMArena Vision1324—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), Command A: 45.3 (#170)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Command A
LMArena Non-English14811313
LMArena Chinese15431327
LMArena French15051351
LMArena German14861341
LMArena Japanese15061285
LMArena Korean14881285
LMArena Russian15041314
LMArena Spanish14981347

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), Command A: 69.1 (#177)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Command A
LMArena Instruction Following15021309

Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), Command A: 40.6 (#151)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Command A
LMArena Longer Query15091334

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), Command A: 47.6 (#208)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Command A
LMArena Text14911331
LMArena Creative Writing14941319
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19431145
LMArena Multi-Turn15041339
EQ-Bench 41340—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Command A?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index. Command A costs 4.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Command A?

Command A is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Claude Fable 5 lists at $10 and $50.

Is Claude Fable 5 or Command A better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Fable 5 does, with 1M tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Command A share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.

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