Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3-1.7B

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.3

Rank #5 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.4 to 15.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Fable 5 and 8.1% for Qwen3-1.7B.
  • Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Claude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index66.326.2
Released2026-06-072025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked614

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 67.0 (#4), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1626—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
WeirdML91.9%—
LMArena Coding1519—
MirrorCode63.9%—
ALE-Bench2,041—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 54.1 (#2), Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
APEX-Agents63.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%
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 (#4), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles41%0%
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
SimpleBench81.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt28.6%—
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), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%8.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
ProofBench95%—
LMArena Math1519—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 62.3 (#22), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond85.9%38%
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
LMArena Expert1534—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.6 (#14), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision1326—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 57.6 (#8), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1483—
LMArena Chinese1546—
LMArena French1509—
LMArena German1486—
LMArena Japanese1507—
LMArena Korean1493—
LMArena Russian1507—
LMArena Spanish1503—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 78.8 (#7), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1503—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#22), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query1510—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 76.1 (#5), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1491—
LMArena Creative Writing1494—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
EQ-Bench 41340—
LMArena Multi-Turn1505—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Qwen3-1.7B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 61 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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