Claude Fable 5.1 vs Mistral Nemo
Mistral Nemo costs 333.3x less per output token than Claude Fable 5.1 ($0.15 vs $50.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 2 benchmarks have a result for both.
vs boards won of 2 shared
Claude Fable 5.1 or Mistral Nemo: which to pick
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has a coding score, 84.2 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Nemo has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Mistral Nemo for output tokens 333.3x cheaper ($0.15 vs $50.00 per million).
Model AClaude Fable 5.1Anthropic84.2/1005 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BMistral NemoMistral AINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 2
- Claude Fable 5.1 only
- 122
- Mistral Nemo only
- 1
- Like-for-like categories
- 2 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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 53.4.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has a AA Agentic Index result, 57.9.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has a GPQA Diamond result, 93.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has a MMLU Pro result, 92.4%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1313.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1 takes 1M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Mistral Nemo
Claude Fable 5.1 $0.035, Mistral Nemo $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Fable 5.1 84.2 from 5 benchmarks, Mistral Nemo not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Intelligence, 59.8 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- Epoch Capabilities Index: Claude Fable 5.1 166.5 against Mistral Nemo 118.7, 59.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Fable 5.1 $50.00 against Mistral Nemo $0.15 per million output tokens, 333.3x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Fable 5.1 takes 1M tokens, Mistral Nemo 131K.
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.
| Category | Claude Fable 5.1 | Bars | Mistral Nemo | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| General | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 2 | 0 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index26 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Mistral Nemo | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 97.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1743 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 81.6 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 90.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 58.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 54.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 7.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 90.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 85.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 61.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 28.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 61.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 70.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| SciCode | 63.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| FrontierCode | 50.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 56.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 88.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| WeirdML | 92.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| MirrorCode | 73.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 2143.2 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1532 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1530 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1792 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1684 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1722 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Mistral Nemo | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 53.4 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 166.5 | 118.7 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index24 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Mistral Nemo | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 57.9 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1318 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1326 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1267 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1327 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1327 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1365 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LiveBench research | 82.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 80.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 22.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 58.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 49.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 55.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 76.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 40.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 63.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | 13.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Robo-bench (Vals AI) | 5.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 68.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 17.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| SpireClimb | 2.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,422 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Search | 1246 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Mistral Nemo | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 91.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 47.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 90.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 93.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 59.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 97.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 48.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 58.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| EBR-bench | 57.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1528 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1544 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1522 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1343 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1345 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Mistral Nemo | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 90.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 87.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| ProofBench | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1531 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1541 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Mistral Nemo | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 92.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 88.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 76.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 70.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 53.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| MMLU | Not measured | 65.3% | Only Mistral Nemo measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1532 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1531 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1514 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1493 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Mistral Nemo | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1313 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1339 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1381 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1344 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1393 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1336 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1301 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1323 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LiveBench design | 83.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Mistral Nemo | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 80.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 74.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 48.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 91.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 85.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| DTBench | 97.6% | 48.6% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMCA | 65.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 70.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1512 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1518 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1509 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1319 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1506 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1508 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1584 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1499 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1562 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1517 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1523 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1520 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1520 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1525 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1493 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1524 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1510 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1497 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1313 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1391 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1327 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1318 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1330 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | Mistral Nemo | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Mistral Nemo$0.0002Fits in one request
Mistral Nemo costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Fable 5.1$0.650Fits in one request
Mistral Nemo$0.0080Fits in one request
Mistral Nemo costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Fable 5.1$2.50Fits in one request
Mistral Nemo$0.032Exceeds the context window
Mistral Nemo 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.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | September 1, 2026 | July 19, 2024 |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Input $/Mtok | $10.00 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $50.00 | $0.15 |
| Coding index | 84.2 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than Mistral Nemo for coding?
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has a coding score, 84.2 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Nemo has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Mistral Nemo for output tokens 333.3x cheaper ($0.15 vs $50.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 or Mistral Nemo?
Claude Fable 5.1 costs $10.00 per million input tokens and $50.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Nemo costs $0.15 and $0.15. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5.1 or Mistral Nemo?
Claude Fable 5.1, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Fable 5.1 vs Mistral Nemo comparison based on?
2 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Fable 5.1's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Mistral Nemo's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.