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Claude Fable 5.1 vs MiniMax M3

Claude Fable 5.1 leads MiniMax M3 on coding, 84.2 to 39.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and MiniMax M3 costs 41.7x less per output token ($1.20 vs $50.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 101 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Claude Fable 5.1 Replace MiniMax M3
Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic
Coding
84.2
Overall
84.7
Output $/M
$50.00
100
MiniMax M3MiniMax
Coding
39.2
Overall
51.7
Output $/M
$1.20
1
vs boards won of 101 shared

Claude Fable 5.1 or MiniMax M3: which to pick

Pick Claude Fable 5.1 for coding: it scores 84.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 39.2 for MiniMax M3, though on 5 benchmarks against 6.

Pick MiniMax M3 for output tokens 41.7x cheaper ($1.20 vs $50.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 1M tokens).

Model AClaude Fable 5.1Anthropic84.2/1005 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BMiniMax M3MiniMax39.2/1006 independent benchmarks$0.56 per solved task
Shared results
101
Claude Fable 5.1 only
32
MiniMax M3 only
16
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Claude Fable 5.1 84.2 from 5 benchmarks, MiniMax M3 39.2 from 6 benchmarks.
Widest category
Math, 35.8 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
LiveBench browser: Claude Fable 5.1 100.0% against MiniMax M3 8.0%, 92.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Claude Fable 5.1 $50.00 against MiniMax M3 $1.20 per million output tokens, 41.7x apart.
Context window
Claude Fable 5.1 takes 1M tokens, MiniMax M3 1.05M.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryClaude Fable 5.1BarsMiniMax M3Ties
Coding200
Intelligence20
Agentic work150
Reasoning120
Math40
Knowledge90
Web design90
General291
All shared boards1001
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index200
Coding benchmarks for Claude Fable 5.1 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1MiniMax M3Leader
LiveBench coding97.7%70.9%Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena WebDev17431482Claude Fable 5.1
AA Coding Index81.658.6Claude Fable 5.1
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)90.5%82.2%Claude Fable 5.1
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured75.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)58.1%1.0%Claude Fable 5.1
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)90.3%47.6%Claude Fable 5.1
Code migration (Vals AI)54.6%19.9%Claude Fable 5.1
ProgramBench (Vals AI)7.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
IOI (Vals AI)90.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)85.0%53.6%Claude Fable 5.1
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)61.3%33.3%Claude Fable 5.1
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)28.0%9.2%Claude Fable 5.1
SkillsBench (Vals AI)61.5%51.5%Claude Fable 5.1
CyberBench (Vals AI)70.4%65.0%Claude Fable 5.1
SciCode63.1%47.1%Claude Fable 5.1
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured42.4%Only MiniMax M3 measured
FrontierCode50.9%14.7%Claude Fable 5.1
FrontierSWE56.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
GSO-Bench88.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
WeirdML92.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
MirrorCode73.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
ALE-Bench2143.2640.0Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: coding15321470Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: software and IT15301466Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena WebDev: React17921478Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena WebDev: HTML16841455Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena WebDev: from an image17221470Claude Fable 5.1
SWE-Bench Pro V299.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA60.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
SWE Atlas: Refactoring56.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
SWE Atlas: Test Writing67.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Fable 5.1 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1MiniMax M3Leader
AA Intelligence Index53.429.2Claude Fable 5.1
Epoch Capabilities Index166.5146.9Claude Fable 5.1
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index150
Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Fable 5.1 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1MiniMax M3Leader
AA Agentic Index57.929.5Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: agents building web apps13181200Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps13261197Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps12671169Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: agents building Android appsNot measured1158Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1327Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Design Arena: agents building gamesNot measured1159Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slidesNot measured1120Only MiniMax M3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides13071178Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: spreadsheets13941042Claude Fable 5.1
LiveBench research82.0%68.0%Claude Fable 5.1
LiveBench browser100.0%8.0%Claude Fable 5.1
LiveBench long agentic80.8%12.4%Claude Fable 5.1
SREBench (Vals AI)22.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)58.9%48.3%Claude Fable 5.1
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)49.2%20.6%Claude Fable 5.1
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)55.3%29.8%Claude Fable 5.1
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)76.7%47.8%Claude Fable 5.1
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)40.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Time Horizon Index (Vals AI)63.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
CUA-bench (Vals AI)13.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Robo-bench (Vals AI)5.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured88.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
APEX-Agents68.6%37.7%Claude Fable 5.1
Remote Labor Index17.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
OSWorld 2.0Not measured4.6%Only MiniMax M3 measured
SpireClimb2.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Vending-Bench 2$5,422$2,158Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Search1246Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
MCP Atlas87.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index120
Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Fable 5.1 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1MiniMax M3Leader
GPQA Diamond93.4%92.7%Claude Fable 5.1
LiveBench reasoning91.7%74.5%Claude Fable 5.1
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)47.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)90.6%81.2%Claude Fable 5.1
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)93.7%92.9%Claude Fable 5.1
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)59.1%39.0%Claude Fable 5.1
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)Not measured90.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
ARC-AGI97.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
ARC-AGI-290.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
SimpleBenchNot measured45.8%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Chess puzzles48.0%13.0%Claude Fable 5.1
Mystery game puzzles58.0%8.0%Claude Fable 5.1
EBR-bench57.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts15281447Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: expert15441461Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English15221455Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Vision: diagrams13431266Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Vision: homework13451268Claude Fable 5.1
Humanity's Last Exam (Scale run)51.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Math benchmarks for Claude Fable 5.1 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1MiniMax M3Leader
OTIS Mock AIME100.0%71.1%Claude Fable 5.1
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 390.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
FrontierMath, tier 487.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
ProofBench100.0%18.0%Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: math15311429Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: mathematical work15411448Claude Fable 5.1
MathArena78.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index90
Knowledge benchmarks for Claude Fable 5.1 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1MiniMax M3Leader
MMLU Pro92.4%84.2%Claude Fable 5.1
LegalBench (Vals AI)88.5%85.4%Claude Fable 5.1
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured68.1%Only MiniMax M3 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)76.0%72.7%Claude Fable 5.1
MortgageTax (Vals AI)70.8%68.4%Claude Fable 5.1
MedCode (Vals AI)53.5%46.3%Claude Fable 5.1
SimpleQA Verified70.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
LMArena Text: science15321452Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare15311441Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: legal and government15141437Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: business and finance14931434Claude Fable 5.1
PRBench Finance50.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
PRBench Legal51.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index90
Web design benchmarks for Claude Fable 5.1 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1MiniMax M3Leader
Design Arena: websites13121257Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: UI components13361243Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: game dev13811210Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: data viz13451236Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: 3D13921208Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: all code categories13351246Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: SVG13001160Claude Fable 5.1
Design Arena: ASCII art13231161Claude Fable 5.1
LiveBench design83.4%66.2%Claude Fable 5.1
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index291
General benchmarks for Claude Fable 5.1 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1MiniMax M3Leader
LiveBench data analysis80.3%76.2%Claude Fable 5.1
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)74.9%64.1%Claude Fable 5.1
SAGE (Vals AI)48.5%50.6%MiniMax M3
MedScribe (Vals AI)91.3%87.3%Claude Fable 5.1
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured60.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
IFBenchNot measured82.9%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)85.3%83.0%Claude Fable 5.1
DTBench97.6%78.9%Claude Fable 5.1
LMCA65.5%33.7%Claude Fable 5.1
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured55.0%Only MiniMax M3 measured
Furniture assembly70.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Fable 5.1 measured
LMArena Text15121433Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: instruction following15181433Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: creative writing15091404Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Vision13191251Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: English15061443Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: non-English15081420Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: Chinese15841466Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: German14991428Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: Japanese15621380Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: Korean15171373Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: French15231444Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: Spanish15201433Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: Russian15201426Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: Polish15251423Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: multi-turn14931443Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: longer queries15241446Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: writing and language15101419Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14971403Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Vision: English13131263Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Vision: Chinese13911311Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Vision: reading text13271259Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Vision: humor13181235Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena Vision: recognizing thingsNot measured1197Only MiniMax M3 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing13301234Claude Fable 5.1
LMArena DocumentNot measured1435Only MiniMax M3 measured
EQ-Bench 4Not measured1150Only MiniMax M3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Claude Fable 5.1 and MiniMax M3
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1MiniMax M3Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Claude Fable 5.1$0.035Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.0009Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Claude Fable 5.1$0.650Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.019Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Claude Fable 5.1$2.50Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.072Fits in one request

MiniMax M3 costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Claude Fable 5.1 and MiniMax M3
SpecificationAnthropic Claude Fable 5.1MiniMax M3
MakerAnthropicMiniMax
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedSeptember 1, 2026May 31, 2026
Context window1M1.05M
Input $/Mtok$10.00$0.30
Output $/Mtok$50.00$1.20
Coding index84.239.2
Independent measurements behind it56
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.56
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than MiniMax M3 for coding?

Pick Claude Fable 5.1 for coding: it scores 84.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 39.2 for MiniMax M3, though on 5 benchmarks against 6. Pick MiniMax M3 for output tokens 41.7x cheaper ($1.20 vs $50.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 1M tokens).

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 or MiniMax M3?

Claude Fable 5.1 costs $10.00 per million input tokens and $50.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 and $1.20. Cost per solved task is known for MiniMax M3 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5.1 or MiniMax M3?

MiniMax M3, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks is the Claude Fable 5.1 vs MiniMax M3 comparison based on?

101 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Fable 5.1's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M3's on 6. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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