Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs phi-3-medium 14B

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.5 to 27.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 85.9% for Claude Fable 5 and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Claude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index66.829.7
Released2026-06-072024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked6213

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1625—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
GSO78.4%—
WeirdML91.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1519—
MirrorCode63.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench2,041—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
APEX-Agents63.6%—
Remote Labor Index16.1%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
PostTrainBench41.8%—
GBAEval74.5%—
GDP.pdf30%—
LMArena Search1230—
Vending-Bench 25,680—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 76.8 (#6), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index162.06121.23
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%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1508—
Mystery Game Puzzles52%—
DTBench98.4%—
LMCA61.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
Bench to the Future 30.13—
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench95%—
LMArena Math1519—
MATH Level 5—17.6%
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond85.9%27.6%
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
LMArena Expert1534—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1324—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1481—
LMArena Chinese1543—
LMArena French1505—
LMArena German1486—
LMArena Japanese1506—
LMArena Korean1488—
LMArena Russian1504—
LMArena Spanish1498—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1502—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1509—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1491—
LMArena Creative Writing1494—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
EQ-Bench 41340—
LMArena Multi-Turn1504—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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