Model comparison
Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 60.5 on the Noometry Index. Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs 5.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 3 categories and Claude Sonnet 5.5 in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5 leads 76.8 to 52.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Furniture Assembly: 35.8% for Claude Fable 5 and 75% for Claude Sonnet 5.5.
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 is cheaper at $2 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.
Side by side
| Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 66.3 | 60.5 |
| Released | 2026-06-07 | 2026-09-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $50 | $10 |
| Results tracked | 61 | 16 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 67.0 (#4), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 65.5 (#6)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 53.5% | 52.1% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1626 | 1699 |
| FrontierSWE | 47% | 61.9% |
| SciCode | 61% | 61% |
| ALE-Bench | 2,041 | 1,819 |
| DeepSWE | 69.9% | — |
| CursorBench | — | 55.5% |
| WeirdML | 91.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1519 | — |
| MirrorCode | 63.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 54.1 (#2), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 63.6% | 75.5% |
| 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 (#4), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 28.6% | 31.4% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 52% | 65% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | — |
| SimpleBench | 81.9% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 91.4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 92.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 41% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 39.3% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 39.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1508 | — |
| DTBench | 98.4% | — |
| LMCA | 61.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 95% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.13 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 163.6 | — |
Math Too close to call
Claude Fable 5: 88.4 (#5), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 88.7 (#4)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 87% | 88.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 90.2% | 80.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | 100% |
| ProofBench | 95% | 100% |
| LMArena Math | 1519 | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 62.3 (#22), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.9% | 95.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | 46.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1534 | — |
Multimodal Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 45.6 (#14), Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.2 (#5)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture Assembly | 35.8% | 75% |
| LMArena Vision | 1326 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1496 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 57.6 (#8), Claude Sonnet 5.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1483 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1546 | — |
| LMArena French | 1509 | — |
| LMArena German | 1486 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1507 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1493 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1507 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1503 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 78.8 (#7), Claude Sonnet 5.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1503 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#22), Claude Sonnet 5.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1510 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 76.1 (#5), Claude Sonnet 5.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1491 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1494 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1943 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1505 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Fable 5 better than Claude Sonnet 5.5?
Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 60.5 on the Noometry Index. Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs 5.0× 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 Claude Sonnet 5.5?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Claude Fable 5 lists at $10 and $50.
Is Claude Fable 5 or Claude Sonnet 5.5 better for coding?
Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.0 versus 65.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 1M tokens.
How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 61 scored results on Noometry and Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 16.