Model comparison

Claude Fable 5.1 vs NVILA 8B

Claude Fable 5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#2); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic

68.5

Rank #2 Confirmed

NVILA 8B NVIDIA

36.7

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Claude Fable 5.1 leads 54.1 to 34.3.
  • NVILA 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5.1 and NVILA 8B specifications
Claude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index68.536.7
Released2026-09-012024-12-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked501

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 70.5 (#2), NVILA 8B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
FrontierCode50.9%—
CursorBench51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1753—
FrontierSWE56.3%—
SciCode63.1%—
WeirdML92.9%—
LMArena Coding1523—
MirrorCode73.3%—
ALE-Bench2,143—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 50.8 (#5), NVILA 8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
APEX-Agents68.6%—
Remote Labor Index17.9%—
GDP.pdf29.6%—
Vending-Bench 25,422—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 76.7 (#5), NVILA 8B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
ARC-AGI-290%—
NYT Connections (extended)90%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt31.1%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
EBR-Bench57.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1526—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
DTBench97.6%—
LMCA65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index165—

Math Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 89.5 (#3), NVILA 8B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)90.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 487.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1519—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 69.3 (#5), NVILA 8B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
Humanity's Last Exam46.5%—
SimpleQA Verified70.8%—
LMArena Expert1528—

Multimodal Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Claude Fable 5.1: 54.1 (#4), NVILA 8B: 34.3

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
LMArena Vision1319—
Video-MME—64.2%
Blueprint-Bench 241.9%—
Furniture Assembly70%—
LMArena Document1513—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 59.5 (#2), NVILA 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
LMArena Non-English1509—
LMArena Chinese1589—
LMArena French1532—
LMArena German1495—
LMArena Japanese1565—
LMArena Russian1525—
LMArena Spanish1503—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.3 (#6), NVILA 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1515—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 46.8 (#19), NVILA 8B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
LMArena Longer Query1524—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Fable 5.1: 79.3 (#1), NVILA 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1NVILA 8B
LMArena Text1511—
LMArena Creative Writing1507—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2162—
LMArena Multi-Turn1492—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than NVILA 8B?

Claude Fable 5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#2); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5.1 and NVILA 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5.1 has 50 scored results on Noometry and NVILA 8B has 1.

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