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Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Large

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Large costs 6.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.5 to 18.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Fable 5 and 8.5% for Mistral Large.
  • Mistral Large is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.
  • Claude Fable 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5Mistral Large
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index66.831.9
Released2026-06-072024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output128K16K
Input $ / M tokens$10$2
Output $ / M tokens$50$6
Results tracked6251

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Mistral Large
SciCode61%36.2%
LMArena Coding15191277
ALE-Bench2,041264.7
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1625—
FrontierSWE47%—
GSO78.4%—
WeirdML91.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—30%
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
MirrorCode63.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.3%
HumanEval+—62.2%
MBPP+—59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Mistral Large
APEX-Agents63.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—38.4%
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), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Mistral Large
SimpleBench81.9%22.5%
CritPt28.6%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081257
DTBench98.4%65.1%
LMCA61.1%16.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.06128.52
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
Chess Puzzles41%—
EnigmaEval39.3%—
EBR-Bench39.5%—
LiveBench Reasoning—43.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles52%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—50.1%
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Bench to the Future 30.13—
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench—48.4%

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Mistral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%8.5%
LMArena Math15191262
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
ProofBench95%—
Omni-MATH—28.1%
LiveBench Math—42.5%
MATH Level 5—50.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Mistral Large
GPQA Diamond85.9%51.3%
LMArena Expert15341232
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
MMLU-Pro—59.9%
Confabulations—21.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.5%
GPQA (HELM)—43.5%
MMLU—80%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), Mistral Large: —

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Mistral Large
LMArena Vision1324—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Mistral Large
LMArena Non-English14811237
LMArena Chinese15431240
LMArena French15051325
LMArena German14861254
LMArena Japanese15061188
LMArena Korean14881202
LMArena Russian15041257
LMArena Spanish14981268

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Mistral Large
LMArena Instruction Following15021249
LiveBench Instruction Following—67.9%
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Mistral Large
LMArena Longer Query15091261

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Mistral Large
LMArena Text14911266
LMArena Creative Writing14941243
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943985
LMArena Multi-Turn15041260
Short-Story Creative Writing—69%
WildBench—80.1%
EQ-Bench 41340—
LiveBench Language—39.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Mistral Large?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Large costs 6.7× 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 Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Claude Fable 5 lists at $10 and $50.

Is Claude Fable 5 or Mistral Large better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Fable 5 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Mistral Large share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.

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