Model comparison
Claude Fable 5 vs Longcat Flash Chat
Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Longcat Flash Chat in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5 leads 76.8 to 19.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 92.7% for Claude Fable 5 and 17.7% for Longcat Flash Chat.
- Longcat Flash Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meituan |
| Noometry Index | 66.8 | 42.1 |
| Released | 2026-06-07 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $50 | — |
| Results tracked | 62 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1519 | 1471 |
| DeepSWE | 69.9% | — |
| FrontierCode | 53.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1625 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 47% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| GSO | 78.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 91.9% | — |
| MirrorCode | 63.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 2,041 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), Longcat Flash Chat: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 63.6% | — |
| 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 (#6), Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 91.4% | 43.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 92.7% | 17.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1508 | 1440 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | — |
| SimpleBench | 81.9% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.5% | — |
| CritPt | 28.6% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 41% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 39.3% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 39.5% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 52% | — |
| DTBench | 98.4% | — |
| LMCA | 61.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 95% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.13 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 162.06 | — |
Math Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1519 | 1442 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 87% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 90.2% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 95% | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1534 | 1454 |
| GPQA Diamond | 85.9% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), Longcat Flash Chat: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1324 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 35.8% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1496 | — |
Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1481 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1543 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1505 | 1456 |
| LMArena German | 1486 | 1408 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1506 | 1373 |
| LMArena Korean | 1488 | 1371 |
| LMArena Russian | 1504 | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1498 | 1445 |
Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1502 | 1411 |
Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1509 | 1425 |
Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1491 | 1427 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1494 | 1388 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1504 | 1418 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1943 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1340 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Fable 5 better than Longcat Flash Chat?
Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 42.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Fable 5 or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?
Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 43.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Longcat Flash Chat share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.