Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen1.5-32B

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.3

Rank #5 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.4 to 30.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 85.9% for Claude Fable 5 and 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
Claude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index66.330.0
Released2026-06-072024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked6121

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 67.0 (#4), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding15191155
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1626—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
WeirdML91.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
MirrorCode63.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—42%
ALE-Bench2,041—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 54.1 (#2), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
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), Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts15081131
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
SimpleBench81.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt28.6%—
Chess Puzzles41%—
EnigmaEval39.3%—
EBR-Bench39.5%—
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), Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math15191155
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench95%—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.3 (#22), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond85.9%30.7%
LMArena Expert15341126
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
MMLU—74.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.6 (#14), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Vision1326—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.6 (#8), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English14831106
LMArena Chinese15461176
LMArena French15091100
LMArena German14861058
LMArena Japanese15071027
LMArena Korean14931007
LMArena Russian15071073
LMArena Spanish15031089

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.8 (#7), Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following15031116

Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#22), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query15101146

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 76.1 (#5), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text14911137
LMArena Creative Writing14941083
LMArena Multi-Turn15051140
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
EQ-Bench 41340—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5 or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.0 versus 31.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 61 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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