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Claude Fable 5.1vsGemini 3.8 Flash
Claude Fable 5.1 leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3.8 Flash is 13.3x cheaper per token. Gemini 3.8 Flash has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
4 – 0
Claude Fable 5.1 leads
Cheaper per token
Gemini 3.8 Flash
13.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3.8 Flash
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Google
Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic · released 2026-09-01
textvision
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google · released 2026-09-02
textvisionaudio
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 4 only Claude Fable 5.1 · 11 only Gemini 3.8 Flash| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 87.8% ↗epoch | 22% ↗epoch | +65.8 pt | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 90.2% ↗epoch | 68.4% ↗epoch | +21.8 pt | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 100% ↗epoch | 98.9% ↗epoch | +1.1 pt | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.8% ↗epoch | 69.7% ↗epoch | +1.1 pt | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Only Claude Fable 5.1 reports · 4 | ||||
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 60.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CursorBench 3.2.0 | 73.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1853 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 | 52.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Gemini 3.8 Flash reports · 11 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | not reported | 95.3% ↗ | — | — |
| CharXiv Reasoning (no tools) | not reported | 86.2% ↗ | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | not reported | 73.7% ↗ | — | — |
| GDPVal-AA v2 | not reported | 1545 ↗ | — | — |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark | not reported | 10% ↗ | — | — |
| HLE-Verified | not reported | 54.9% ↗ | — | — |
| LABBench2 | not reported | 86.2% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld-2.0 | not reported | 59% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-bench 2.1 | not reported | 89.4% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-bench 4.0 | not reported | 19.1% ↗ | — | — |
| Vals Finance Agent v2 | not reported | 61.4% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Fable 5.1 minus Gemini 3.8 Flash in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Fable 5.1 | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.0M tokens | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 66K tokens | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Input price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $0.75 ↗ | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Output price / 1M | $50 ↗ | $3.75 ↗ | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.25 ↗ | $0.075 ↗ | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $60 | $4.5 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision · audio | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
| Released | 2026-09-01 | 2026-09-02 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 16 | — |
Reliability
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