Model comparison
Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Medium
Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium costs 6.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 10 categories and Mistral Medium in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.5 to 28.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 95% for Claude Fable 5 and 9% for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.
- Claude Fable 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 66.8 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2026-06-07 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | 128K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $50 | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 62 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 53.5% | 8% |
| SciCode | 61% | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | 91.9% | 43.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1519 | 1434 |
| ALE-Bench | 2,041 | 763.98 |
| DeepSWE | 69.9% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1625 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 47% | — |
| GSO | 78.4% | — |
| MirrorCode | 63.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 63.6% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
| Remote Labor Index | 16.1% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 39.7% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 41.8% | — |
| GBAEval | 74.5% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 30% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1230 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,680 | — |
Reasoning Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 76.8 (#6), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 91.4% | 50% |
| CritPt | 28.6% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1508 | 1426 |
| DTBench | 98.4% | 75.5% |
| LMCA | 61.1% | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 95% | 26.9% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | — |
| SimpleBench | 81.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 92.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 41% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 39.3% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 39.5% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 52% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.13 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 162.06 | — |
Math Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | 95% | 9% |
| LMArena Math | 1519 | 1408 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 87% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 90.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.9% | 59.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1534 | 1408 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
Multimodal Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1324 | 1172 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 35.8% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1496 | — |
Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1481 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1543 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1505 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1486 | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1506 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1488 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1504 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1498 | 1433 |
Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1502 | 1398 |
Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1509 | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1491 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1494 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1504 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1943 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1340 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Fable 5 better than Mistral Medium?
Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium costs 6.7× 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 Mistral Medium?
Mistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Claude Fable 5 lists at $10 and $50.
Is Claude Fable 5 or Mistral Medium better for coding?
Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Fable 5 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Mistral Medium share?
30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.