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Claude Fable 5vsSeed1.8

Claude Fable 5 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Seed1.8 is 26.7x cheaper per token. Claude Fable 5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Claude Fable 5 leads
Cheaper per token
Seed1.8
26.7x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Fable 5
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · ByteDance Seed
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-09
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$10 ↗
Output /1M
$50 ↗
Cached /1M
$1
Scores
44 · 11 core
Seed1.8
ByteDance Seed · released 2025-12-18
textvisionvideo
Context
256K
Max out
64K
Input /1M
$0.25 ↗
Output /1M
$2 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.05
Scores
16 · 6 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Seed1.8ΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
SWE-bench Verified95% ↗72.9% ↗+22.1 ptClaude Fable 5
OSWorld-Verified (XLANG)86% ↗61.9% ↗+24.1 ptClaude Fable 5
Only Claude Fable 5 reports · 42
GPQA Diamond85.9% ↗epoch runnot reported——
LMArena Elo1504.3 ↗not reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)63.6% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench17.4% ↗not reported——
Blueprint-Bench 238.6% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)41% ↗epoch runnot reported——
CursorBench72.9% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)69.9% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)39.5% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierCode (Diamond)29.3% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)90.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)87% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)47% ↗not reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)35.8% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GDP.pdf29.8% ↗not reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)76.5% ↗not reported——
Legal Agent Benchmark (Harvey's Held-Out Set)13.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)62.2% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)86% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)80.5% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)75.8% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)90.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)96% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)89.7% ↗not reported——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.0821 ↗not reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1308.8 ↗not reported——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1625.3 ↗not reported——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)63.9% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)52% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OfficeQA Pro57.9% ↗not reported——
OSWorld-Verified85% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)100% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)51.9% ↗not reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)81.9% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified70.7% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SWE-Bench Pro80% ↗not reported——
SWE-rebench 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-01 (Nebius)64.5% ↗not reported——
tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra)39.7% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 2.184.3% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)41.4% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)5680.26 ↗not reported——
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)91.9% ↗not reported——
Only Seed1.8 reports · 14
MMLU-Pronot reported84.9% ↗——
AIME-25not reported94.3% ↗——
ARC-AGI-1not reported67.9% ↗——
BFCL-v4not reported57.2% ↗——
BrowseComp-ennot reported67.6% ↗——
GPQA-Diamondnot reported83.8% ↗——
HLE (text-only, agentic search)not reported40.9% ↗——
LiveCodeBench(v6)not reported79.5% ↗——
MM-BrowseCompnot reported46.3% ↗——
Multi-SWE-Benchnot reported42% ↗——
MultiChallengenot reported66.7% ↗——
Terminal Bench 2.0not reported45.2% ↗——
WideSearchnot reported63.8% ↗——
τ2-Benchnot reported72% ↗——
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 Seed1.8 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

SpecClaude Fable 5Seed1.8Edge
Context window1M tokens256K tokensClaude Fable 5
Max output128K tokens64K tokensClaude Fable 5
Input price / 1M$10 ↗$0.25 ↗Seed1.8
Output price / 1M$50 ↗$2 ↗Seed1.8
Cached input / 1M$1 ↗$0.05 ↗Seed1.8
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$60$2.25Seed1.8
Modalitiestext · visiontext · vision · videoSeed1.8
Released2026-06-092025-12-18—
Cited benchmark scores4416—
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