Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Nova Premier 1.0

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. Nova Premier 1.0 costs 4.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.3

Rank #5 Confirmed

Nova Premier 1.0 Amazon

37.7

Rank #185 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 5 categories and Nova Premier 1.0 in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.4 to 31.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 91.4% for Claude Fable 5 and 44.8% for Nova Premier 1.0.
  • Nova Premier 1.0 is cheaper at $2.50 / $12.50 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and Nova Premier 1.0 specifications
Claude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
ProviderAnthropicAmazon
Noometry Index66.337.7
Released2026-06-072025-04-30
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Max output128K10K
Input $ / M tokens$10$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$50$12.50
Results tracked616

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 67.0 (#4), Nova Premier 1.0: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1626—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
WeirdML91.9%—
LMArena Coding1519—
MirrorCode63.9%—
ALE-Bench2,041—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 54.1 (#2), Nova Premier 1.0: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
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), Nova Premier 1.0: 22.3 (#182)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%44.8%
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
SimpleBench81.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt28.6%—
Chess Puzzles41%—
EnigmaEval39.3%—
EBR-Bench39.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1508—
Mystery Game Puzzles52%—
DTBench98.4%—
LMCA61.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Bench to the Future 30.13—
Epoch Capabilities Index163.6—

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.4 (#5), Nova Premier 1.0: 31.5 (#194)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench95%—
Omni-MATH—35%
LMArena Math1519—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.3 (#22), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.4 (#176)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
GPQA Diamond85.9%—
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
MMLU-Pro—72.6%
GPQA (HELM)—51.8%
LMArena Expert1534—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.6 (#14), Nova Premier 1.0: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Vision1326—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 57.6 (#8), Nova Premier 1.0: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Non-English1483—
LMArena Chinese1546—
LMArena French1509—
LMArena German1486—
LMArena Japanese1507—
LMArena Korean1493—
LMArena Russian1507—
LMArena Spanish1503—

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.8 (#7), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.9 (#201)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
IFEval—80.3%
LMArena Instruction Following1503—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#22), Nova Premier 1.0: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Longer Query1510—

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 76.1 (#5), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#174)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Text1491—
LMArena Creative Writing1494—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
WildBench—78.8%
EQ-Bench 41340—
LMArena Multi-Turn1505—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Nova Premier 1.0?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. Nova Premier 1.0 costs 4.0× 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 Nova Premier 1.0?

Nova Premier 1.0 is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $12.50 per million output tokens; Claude Fable 5 lists at $10 and $50.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Nova Premier 1.0 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 61 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.

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