Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 6 categories and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.5 to 36.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Fable 5 and 51.4% for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B.
  • DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B specifications
Claude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index66.837.8
Released2026-06-072025-01-20
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), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.8 (#202)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1625—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
GSO78.4%—
WeirdML91.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—35.3%
LiveBench Coding—51.6%
LMArena Coding1519—
MirrorCode63.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—49.9%
ALE-Bench2,041—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
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), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 24.9 (#156)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%52.3%
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
SimpleBench81.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt28.6%—
Chess Puzzles41%—
EnigmaEval39.3%—
EBR-Bench39.5%—
LiveBench Reasoning—67.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts1508—
Mystery Game Puzzles52%—
DTBench98.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—55.9%
LMCA61.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Bench to the Future 30.13—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.06—
LiveBench—54.5%

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.0 (#176)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%51.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
ProofBench95%—
LiveBench Math—58.1%
LMArena Math1519—
MATH Level 5—89.9%
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 30.7 (#225)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
GPQA Diamond85.9%55.7%
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
LMArena Expert1534—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LMArena Vision1324—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LMArena Non-English1481—
LMArena Chinese1543—
LMArena French1505—
LMArena German1486—
LMArena Japanese1506—
LMArena Korean1488—
LMArena Russian1504—
LMArena Spanish1498—

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 68.2 (#190)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LiveBench Instruction Following—69.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1502—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LMArena Longer Query1509—

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 49.0 (#194)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LMArena Text1491—
LMArena Creative Writing1494—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
EQ-Bench 41340—
LMArena Multi-Turn1504—
LiveBench Language—23.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5 or DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B 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 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has 13.

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