# Claude Fable 5.1 vs Qwen2-72B

> Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-fable-5-1-vs-qwen2-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen2-72B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5.1 leads 89.6 to 30.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 92.9% for Claude Fable 5.1 and 11.3% for Qwen2-72B.
- Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 69.0 | 30.0 |
| Rank | 2 | 300 |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $10 | — |
| Output $/M | $50 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Fable 5.1: 74.7 (#1)
- Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 92.9% | 11.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1528 | 1196 |
| FrontierCode | 50.9% | — |
| CursorBench | 51.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1744 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 56.3% | — |
| SciCode | 63.1% | — |
| GSO | 88.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 38.5% |
| MirrorCode | 73.3% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54% |
| ALE-Bench | 2,143 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Fable 5.1: 50.7 (#5)
- Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 68.6% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 17.9% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 1.1% |
| GDP.pdf | 29.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.9% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,422 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Fable 5.1: 76.7 (#7)
- Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1526 | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 164.7 | 125.28 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 90% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.5% | — |
| CritPt | 31.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 47% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 57.1% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 58% | — |
| DTBench | 97.6% | — |
| LMCA | 65.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude Fable 5.1: 89.6 (#4)
- Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1525 | 1235 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 90.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 87.8% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.1% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Fable 5.1: 69.6 (#6)
- Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1535 | 1171 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 46.5% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.8% | — |
| MMLU | — | 82.4% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Fable 5.1: 53.9 (#4)
- Qwen2-72B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1318 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 41.9% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 70% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1513 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Fable 5.1: 59.1 (#3)
- Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1507 | 1176 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1586 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1525 | 1170 |
| LMArena German | 1500 | 1151 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1543 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1534 | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | 1521 | 1169 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1516 | 1169 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#6)
- Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1517 | 1181 |

## Long Context

- Claude Fable 5.1: 46.7 (#20)
- Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1522 | 1192 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Fable 5.1: 79.2 (#2)
- Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1510 | 1203 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1507 | 1181 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1492 | 1196 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2162 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than Qwen2-72B?

Claude Fable 5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 69.0 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Fable 5.1 or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 74.7 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5.1 and Qwen2-72B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.