# Claude Fable 5 vs Granite 3.0 2b Instruct

> Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-fable-5-vs-granite-3-0-2b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.4 to 29.7.
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 66.3 | 30.2 |
| Rank | 5 | 284 |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $10 | — |
| Output $/M | $50 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Fable 5: 67.0 (#4)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1519 | 1090 |
| DeepSWE | 69.9% | — |
| FrontierCode | 53.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1626 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 47% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| WeirdML | 91.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 20.5% |
| MirrorCode | 63.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 2,041 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Fable 5: 54.1 (#2)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,680 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Fable 5: 76.8 (#4)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1508 | 1073 |
| 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% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 41% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 39.3% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 39.5% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 52% | — |
| DTBench | 98.4% | — |
| LMCA | 61.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 95% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.13 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 163.6 | — |

## Math

- Claude Fable 5: 88.4 (#5)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1519 | 1117 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 87% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 90.2% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 95% | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Fable 5: 62.3 (#22)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1534 | 1064 |
| GPQA Diamond | 85.9% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude Fable 5: 45.6 (#14)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1326 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 35.8% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1496 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Fable 5: 57.6 (#8)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1483 | 1033 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1546 | 1070 |
| LMArena Russian | 1507 | 1045 |
| LMArena French | 1509 | — |
| LMArena German | 1486 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1507 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1493 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1503 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Fable 5: 78.8 (#7)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1503 | 1056 |

## Long Context

- Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#22)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1510 | 1071 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Fable 5: 76.1 (#5)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1491 | 1080 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1494 | 1046 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1505 | 1053 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1943 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1340 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Fable 5 better than Granite 3.0 2b Instruct?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.3 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Fable 5 or Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.0 versus 27.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 61 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13.