# Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Nemo

> Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 133× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Fable 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-fable-5-vs-mistral-nemo
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Nemo in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Fable 5 leads 88.5 to 25.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 85.9% for Claude Fable 5 and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.
- Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for Claude Fable 5.
- Claude Fable 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
- Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 66.8 | 26.4 |
| Rank | 5 | 337 |
| Context | 1M | 128K |
| Input $/M | $10 | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | $50 | $0.15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4)
- Mistral Nemo: —

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 69.9% | — |
| FrontierCode | 53.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1625 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 47% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| GSO | 78.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 91.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1519 | — |
| MirrorCode | 63.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 2,041 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2)
- Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 63.6% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.6% |
| Remote Labor Index | 16.1% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 39.7% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 41.8% | — |
| BALROG | — | 17.6% |
| GBAEval | 74.5% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 30% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1230 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,680 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Fable 5: 76.8 (#6)
- Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 98.4% | 48.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 162.06 | 118.68 |
| 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% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1508 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 52% | — |
| LMCA | 61.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 95% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.13 | — |
| PIQA | — | 83.5% |

## Math

- Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5)
- Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 87% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 90.2% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 95% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1519 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10.8% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 84.2% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25)
- Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.9% | 29.9% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1534 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 82.5% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17)
- Mistral Nemo: —

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1324 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 35.8% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1496 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9)
- Mistral Nemo: —

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1481 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1543 | — |
| LMArena French | 1505 | — |
| LMArena German | 1486 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1506 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1488 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1504 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1498 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8)
- Mistral Nemo: —

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1502 | — |

## Long Context

- Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23)
- Mistral Nemo: —

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1509 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5)
- Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1943 | 881 |
| LMArena Text | 1491 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1494 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1504 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Fable 5 better than Mistral Nemo?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 133× 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 Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Claude Fable 5 lists at $10 and $50.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Fable 5 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Mistral Nemo share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.