Model comparison
Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.5 Plus
Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 42.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.5 Plus costs 22× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5 leads 76.8 to 32.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleQA Verified: 70.7% for Claude Fable 5 and 25.4% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
- Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.
Side by side
| Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 66.3 | 42.3 |
| Released | 2026-06-07 | 2026-02-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 128K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $50 | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 61 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 67.0 (#4), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | 2,041 | 621.92 |
| DeepSWE | 69.9% | — |
| FrontierCode | 53.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1626 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 47% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| WeirdML | 91.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1519 | — |
| MirrorCode | 63.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 54.1 (#2), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,680 | 0.54 |
| APEX-Agents | 63.6% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 16.1% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 39.7% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 41.8% | — |
| GBAEval | 74.5% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 30% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1230 | — |
Reasoning Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 76.8 (#4), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 41% | 22% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 52% | 17% |
| DTBench | 98.4% | 80.5% |
| LMCA | 61.1% | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 163.6 | 146.79 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | — |
| SimpleBench | 81.9% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 91.4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 92.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.5% | — |
| CritPt | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 39.3% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 39.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1508 | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 95% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.13 | — |
Math Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 88.4 (#5), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | 86.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 87% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 90.2% | — |
| ProofBench | 95% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1519 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 62.3 (#22), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.9% | 84.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | 25.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1534 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 45.6 (#14), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1326 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 35.8% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1496 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 57.6 (#8), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1483 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1546 | — |
| LMArena French | 1509 | — |
| LMArena German | 1486 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1507 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1493 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1507 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1503 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 78.8 (#7), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1503 | — |
Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads
Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#22), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1510 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Fable 5: 76.1 (#5), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1491 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1494 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1943 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1505 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Fable 5 better than Qwen3.5 Plus?
Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 42.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3.5 Plus costs 22× 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 Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 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 Qwen3.5 Plus share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 61 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.