Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs QwQ-32B

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5 leads 76.8 to 23.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Fable 5 and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and QwQ-32B specifications
Claude Fable 5QwQ-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index66.839.8
Released2026-06-072024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked6236

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5QwQ-32B
LMArena Coding15191333
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LMArena WebDev1625—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
GSO78.4%—
WeirdML91.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
MirrorCode63.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench2,041—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), QwQ-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5QwQ-32B
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), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5QwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles41%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081325
Epoch Capabilities Index162.06137.6
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%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles52%—
DTBench98.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LMCA61.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Bench to the Future 30.13—
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5QwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%59.2%
LMArena Math15191359
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
ProofBench95%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5QwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond85.9%65.3%
LMArena Expert15341324
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
Confabulations—15.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), QwQ-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5QwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1324—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5QwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14811305
LMArena Chinese15431378
LMArena French15051336
LMArena German14861313
LMArena Japanese15061262
LMArena Korean14881279
LMArena Russian15041297
LMArena Spanish14981354

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5QwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following15021297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5QwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query15091308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5QwQ-32B
LMArena Text14911329
LMArena Creative Writing14941288
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19431257
LMArena Multi-Turn15041314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench 41340—
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than QwQ-32B?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and QwQ-32B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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