Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct costs 6.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5 leads 76.8 to 25.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GSO: 78.4% for Claude Fable 5 and 4.9% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.
  • Claude Fable 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index66.838.1
Released2026-06-072025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K66K
Input $ / M tokens$10$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$50$7.50
Results tracked6225

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena WebDev16251275
GSO78.4%4.9%
WeirdML91.9%41.2%
LMArena Coding15191412
ALE-Bench2,041461.45
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
MirrorCode63.9%—
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
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 (#6), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%49.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts15081372
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
SimpleBench81.9%—
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 Index162.06—

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math15191365
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: 62.2 (#25), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert15341338
GPQA Diamond85.9%—
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Vision1324—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14811346
LMArena Chinese15431357
LMArena French15051398
LMArena German14861325
LMArena Japanese15061310
LMArena Korean14881305
LMArena Russian15041366
LMArena Spanish14981360

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following15021355

Long Context Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query15091378

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text14911357
LMArena Creative Writing14941333
LMArena Multi-Turn15041365
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
EQ-Bench 41340—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct costs 6.7× 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-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Claude Fable 5 lists at $10 and $50.

Is Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Fable 5 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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