Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Llama 2-13B

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.3

Rank #5 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5 leads 76.8 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 98.4% for Claude Fable 5 and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and Llama 2-13B specifications
Claude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index66.329.1
Released2026-06-072023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked6132

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 67.0 (#4), Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Coding15191062
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1626—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
WeirdML91.9%—
MirrorCode63.9%—
ALE-Bench2,041—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 54.1 (#2), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
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 (#4), Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles41%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081051
DTBench98.4%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index163.6105.8
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%—
Mystery Game Puzzles52%—
LMCA61.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Bench to the Future 30.13—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.4 (#5), Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Math15191065
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench95%—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.3 (#22), Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Expert15341030
GPQA Diamond85.9%—
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.6 (#14), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1326—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.6 (#8), Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English14831024
LMArena Chinese15461001
LMArena French15091043
LMArena German14861009
LMArena Japanese1507894
LMArena Korean1493953
LMArena Russian15071055
LMArena Spanish15031086

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.8 (#7), Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following15031046

Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#22), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query15101064

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 76.1 (#5), Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Text14911085
LMArena Creative Writing14941047
LMArena Multi-Turn15051050
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
EQ-Bench 41340—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Llama 2-13B?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5 or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.0 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Llama 2-13B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 61 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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