Claude Fable 5.1 vs o1
Claude Fable 5.1 leads o1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 53.4 to 15.2, and Claude Fable 5.1 costs 1.2x less per output token ($50.00 vs $60.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 50 benchmarks have a result for both.
vs boards won of 50 shared
Claude Fable 5.1 or o1: which to pick
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has a coding score, 84.2 on the Vibe Coding Index; o1 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Model AClaude Fable 5.1Anthropic84.2/1005 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel Bo1OpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 50
- Claude Fable 5.1 only
- 74
- o1 only
- 19
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 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
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1 leads, 53.4 against 15.2.
Same board, both measured
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
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1 leads, 93.4% against 73.2%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only o1 has a AIME result, 71.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1 leads, 92.4% against 83.5%.
Same board, both measured
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 200K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1 $0.035, o1 $0.045 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Fable 5.1 84.2 from 5 benchmarks, o1 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Math, 37.7 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3: Claude Fable 5.1 90.2% against o1 14.7%, 75.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Fable 5.1 $50.00 against o1 $60.00 per million output tokens, 1.2x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Fable 5.1 takes 1M tokens, o1 200K.
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 | o1 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 5 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 9 | 0 | ||
| Math | 4 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 8 | 0 | ||
| General | 22 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 50 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index50
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 61.7% | Only o1 measured |
| 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 | 39.7 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 90.5% | 50.3% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| 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 |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 67.9% | Only o1 measured |
| SciCode | 63.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 12.9% | Only o1 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% | 46.1% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| 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 | 1367 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1530 | 1366 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| 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 |
| SciCode | Not measured | 4.6% | Only o1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 53.4 | 15.2 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 166.5 | 141.7 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index26 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | o1 | 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 |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 62.6% | Only o1 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 68.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| METR time horizons | Not measured | 51.1% | Only o1 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 | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index90
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.4% | 73.2% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| 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% | 77.4% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 93.7% | 74.7% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 59.1% | 7.0% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 76.8% | Only o1 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 97.5% | 30.7% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 40.1% | Only o1 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 48.0% | 10.0% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| 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 |
| VPCT | Not measured | 37.0% | Only o1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1528 | 1371 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1544 | 1361 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1522 | 1372 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| 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 3 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 71.5% | Only o1 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 90.4% | Only o1 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 89.3% | Only o1 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 100.0% | 73.3% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 90.2% | 14.7% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 87.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| ProofBench | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 94.7% | Only o1 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1531 | 1388 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1541 | 1390 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 92.4% | 83.5% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 88.5% | 80.4% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 76.0% | 74.3% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 70.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 96.5% | Only o1 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 53.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 84.1% | Only o1 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.8% | 41.1% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| GeoBench | Not measured | 80.0% | Only o1 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1532 | 1369 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1531 | 1355 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1514 | 1368 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1493 | 1328 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | o1 | 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 index220
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | o1 | 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 |
| IFBench | Not measured | 70.3% | Only o1 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 85.3% | 65.0% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| DTBench | 97.6% | 74.7% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMCA | 65.5% | 22.3% | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 83.3% | Only o1 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 70.2% | Only o1 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 70.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1512 | 1366 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1518 | 1367 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1509 | 1347 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Vision | 1319 | 1168 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1506 | 1372 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1508 | 1358 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1584 | 1394 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1499 | 1337 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1562 | 1346 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1517 | 1396 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1523 | 1344 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1520 | 1345 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1520 | 1356 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1525 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1493 | 1355 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1524 | 1378 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1510 | 1360 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1497 | 1358 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1313 | 1162 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1391 | 1235 | Claude Fable 5.1 |
| 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 12 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5.1 | o1 | 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
o1$0.045Fits in one request
Claude Fable 5.1 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Fable 5.1$0.650Fits in one request
o1$0.930Fits in one request
Claude Fable 5.1 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Fable 5.1$2.50Fits in one request
o1$3.60Exceeds the context window
Claude Fable 5.1 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 | OpenAI o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | September 1, 2026 | December 17, 2024 |
| Context window | 1M | 200K |
| Input $/Mtok | $10.00 | $15.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $50.00 | $60.00 |
| 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 o1 for coding?
Only Claude Fable 5.1 has a coding score, 84.2 on the Vibe Coding Index; o1 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 or o1?
Claude Fable 5.1 costs $10.00 per million input tokens and $50.00 per million output tokens; o1 costs $15.00 and $60.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5.1 or o1?
Claude Fable 5.1, with 1M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Fable 5.1 vs o1 comparison based on?
50 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 o1's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.