Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.4

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 59.4 on the Noometry Index. GPT-5.4 costs 3.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 54 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 54 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-5.4 in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Fable 5 leads 70.6 to 52.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MirrorCode: 63.9% for Claude Fable 5 and 15.6% for GPT-5.4.
  • GPT-5.4 is cheaper at $2.50 / $15 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.4 specifications
Claude Fable 5GPT-5.4
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index66.859.4
Released2026-06-072026-03-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1.05M
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$10$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$50$15
Results tracked6268

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GPT-5.4
DeepSWE69.9%51.8%
LMArena WebDev16251465
SciCode61%56.6%
GSO78.4%31.4%
WeirdML91.9%77.7%
LMArena Coding15191497
MirrorCode63.9%15.6%
ALE-Bench2,0411,607
SWE-bench Verified—76.9%
FrontierCode53.5%—
FrontierSWE47%—
AlgoTune—1.85

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GPT-5.4
APEX-Agents63.6%52.4%
τ²-bench Banking39.7%39.4%
PostTrainBench41.8%19%
GBAEval74.5%45.1%
LMArena Search12301197
Vending-Bench 25,6806,144
Terminal-Bench—81.8%
Remote Labor Index16.1%—
DeepResearch Bench—35.1%
GDP.pdf30%—
METR Time Horizons—74.3%

Reasoning Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 76.8 (#6), GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GPT-5.4
ARC-AGI-289.2%74%
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%63.8%
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%91.3%
ARC-AGI-198.5%93.7%
CritPt28.6%23.4%
Chess Puzzles41%44%
EnigmaEval39.3%16%
EBR-Bench39.5%25.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081485
Mystery Game Puzzles52%37%
DTBench98.4%94.4%
LMCA61.1%52%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.06156.81
SimpleBench81.9%—
Thematic Generalization—80%
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Bench to the Future 30.13—
ForecastBench—59.5

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GPT-5.4
GPQA Diamond85.9%93.3%
SimpleQA Verified70.7%45.1%
LMArena Expert15341507
Humanity's Last Exam—36.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7%

Multimodal Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GPT-5.4
LMArena Vision13241303
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%27.1%
Furniture Assembly35.8%37.5%
LMArena Document14961471

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GPT-5.4
LMArena Non-English14811465
LMArena Chinese15431519
LMArena French15051493
LMArena German14861472
LMArena Japanese15061485
LMArena Korean14881448
LMArena Russian15041480
LMArena Spanish14981454

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GPT-5.4
LMArena Instruction Following15021469

Long Context GPT-5.4 leads

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GPT-5.4
LMArena Longer Query15091473
CL-bench—27.9%
CL-bench Life—21.7%

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GPT-5.4
LMArena Text14911469
LMArena Creative Writing14941439
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19431840
EQ-Bench 413401272
LMArena Multi-Turn15041482

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than GPT-5.4?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 59.4 on the Noometry Index. GPT-5.4 costs 3.6× 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 GPT-5.4?

GPT-5.4 is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens; Claude Fable 5 lists at $10 and $50.

Is Claude Fable 5 or GPT-5.4 better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 52.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.4 share?

54 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 has 68.

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