Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Llama 2-13B

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5 leads 76.8 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 98.4% for Claude Fable 5 and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and Llama 2-13B specifications
Claude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index66.829.6
Released2026-06-072023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked6232

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Coding15191062
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1625—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
GSO78.4%—
WeirdML91.9%—
MirrorCode63.9%—
ALE-Bench2,041—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
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), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles41%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081051
DTBench98.4%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.06106.17
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
SimpleBench81.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt28.6%—
EnigmaEval39.3%—
EBR-Bench39.5%—
Mystery Game Puzzles52%—
LMCA61.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Bench to the Future 30.13—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Math15191065
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench95%—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Expert15341030
GPQA Diamond85.9%—
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1324—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English14811024
LMArena Chinese15431001
LMArena French15051044
LMArena German14861009
LMArena Japanese1506894
LMArena Korean1488953
LMArena Russian15041055
LMArena Spanish14981087

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following15021045

Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query15091064

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Text14911084
LMArena Creative Writing14941047
LMArena Multi-Turn15041050
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
EQ-Bench 41340—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Llama 2-13B?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5 or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Llama 2-13B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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