Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen1.5-72B

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.3

Rank #5 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.3

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.4 to 30.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 85.9% for Claude Fable 5 and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index66.330.3
Released2026-06-072024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked6122

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 67.0 (#4), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding15191166
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1626—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
WeirdML91.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
MirrorCode63.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
ALE-Bench2,041—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 54.1 (#2), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
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), Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts15081148
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), Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math15191164
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), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond85.9%28.8%
LMArena Expert15341136
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.6 (#14), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1326—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.6 (#8), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English14831135
LMArena Chinese15461186
LMArena French15091158
LMArena German14861084
LMArena Japanese15071061
LMArena Korean14931049
LMArena Russian15071104
LMArena Spanish15031110

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.8 (#7), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following15031142

Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#22), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query15101157

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 76.1 (#5), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text14911166
LMArena Creative Writing14941137
LMArena Multi-Turn15051160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
EQ-Bench 41340—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5 or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.0 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 61 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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