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Claude Fable 5vs
GPT-5.6 Sol
Claude Fable 5 leads 18 of 32 shared benchmarks. GPT-5.6 Sol is 2.5x cheaper per token. GPT-5.6 Sol has the larger context window (1.1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
18 – 12
Claude Fable 5 leads · 2 tied
Cheaper per token
GPT-5.6 Sol
2.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5.6 Sol
1.1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-09
textvision
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI · released 2026-07-09
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
32 shared · 12 only Claude Fable 5 · 2 only GPT-5.6 Sol| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 32 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 85.9% ↗epoch run | 94.6% ↗ | -8.7 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Elo | 1504.3 ↗ | 1483.9 ↗ | +20.4 | Claude Fable 5 |
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | 63.6% ↗ | 51.4% ↗ | +12.2 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 41% ↗epoch run | 64% ↗epoch run | -23 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve) | 69.9% ↗ | 72.7% ↗ | -2.8 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| EBR-bench (Epoch AI run) | 39.5% ↗epoch run | 44.8% ↗epoch run | -5.3 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 90.2% ↗epoch run | 82.9% ↗epoch run | +7.3 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 87% ↗epoch run | 89.1% ↗epoch run | -2.1 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs) | 47% ↗ | 32.2% ↗ | +14.8 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run) | 35.8% ↗epoch run | 56.7% ↗epoch run | -20.9 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| GSO Opt@1 (GSO) | 76.5% ↗ | 70.6% ↗ | +5.9 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench) | 62.2% ↗ | 56.2% ↗ | +6 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| LiveBench Coding (LiveBench) | 86% ↗ | 83.9% ↗ | +2.1 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench) | 80.5% ↗ | 79.8% ↗ | +0.7 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench) | 75.8% ↗ | 71.8% ↗ | +4 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| LiveBench Language (LiveBench) | 90.7% ↗ | 87.7% ↗ | +3 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench) | 96% ↗ | 96.2% ↗ | -0.2 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench) | 89.7% ↗ | 91.7% ↗ | -2 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Agent (LMArena) | 0.0821 ↗ | 0.0645 ↗ | 0 | Tie |
| LMArena Vision (LMArena) | 1308.8 ↗ | 1284.7 ↗ | +24.1 | Claude Fable 5 |
| MirrorCode (Epoch AI run) | 63.9% ↗epoch run | 20% ↗epoch run | +43.9 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 52% ↗epoch run | 58% ↗epoch run | -6 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 100% ↗epoch run | 100% ↗epoch run | 0 | Tie |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 51.9% ↗ | 52.6% ↗ | -0.7 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 81.9% ↗ | 71.7% ↗ | +10.2 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% ↗epoch run | 69.7% ↗epoch run | +1 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 80% ↗ | 64.6% ↗ | +15.4 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-rebench 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-01 (Nebius) | 64.5% ↗ | 62.3% ↗ | +2.2 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra) | 39.7% ↗ | 46.9% ↗ | -7.2 pt | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI) | 41.4% ↗ | 37.9% ↗ | +3.5 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 5680.26 ↗ | 9619.37 ↗ | -3939.1 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | 91.9% ↗ | 89.4% ↗ | +2.5 pt | Claude Fable 5 |
| Only Claude Fable 5 reports · 12 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AutomationBench | 17.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CursorBench | 72.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierCode (Diamond) | 29.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GDP.pdf | 29.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Legal Agent Benchmark (Harvey's Held-Out Set) | 13.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1625.3 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OfficeQA Pro | 57.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 85% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified (XLANG) | 86% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 84.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5.6 Sol reports · 2 | ||||
| BALROG (BALROG) | not reported | 60% ↗ | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | not reported | 72.7% ↗ | — | — |
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 minus GPT-5.6 Sol 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 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.1M tokens | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 128K tokens | Tie |
| Input price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $4 ↗ | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Output price / 1M | $50 ↗ | $20 ↗ | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Cached input / 1M | $1 ↗ | $0.4 ↗ | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $60 | $24 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-06-09 | 2026-07-09 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 44 | 40 | — |
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