Claude Fable 5 vs MiniMax M2
Claude Fable 5 leads MiniMax M2 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 49.6 to 18.6, and MiniMax M2 costs 49.0x less per output token ($1.02 vs $50.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 44 benchmarks have a result for both.
Claude Fable 5 or MiniMax M2: which to pick
Only Claude Fable 5 has a coding score, 79.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; MiniMax M2 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick MiniMax M2 for output tokens 49.0x cheaper ($1.02 vs $50.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.702 against $2.16).
- Shared results
- 44
- Claude Fable 5 only
- 83
- MiniMax M2 only
- 6
- 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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 49.6 against 18.6.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has a AA Agentic Index result, 50.7.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 93.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has a MMLU Pro result, 91.5%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 1295 against 1143.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 takes 1M tokens against 205K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiniMax M2
Claude Fable 5 $0.035, MiniMax M2 $0.0008 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
MiniMax M2
Claude Fable 5 $2.16, MiniMax M2 $0.702.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Fable 5 79.3 from 6 benchmarks, MiniMax M2 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 36.2 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena WebDev: HTML: Claude Fable 5 1651 against MiniMax M2 1306, 48.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Fable 5 $50.00 against MiniMax M2 $1.02 per million output tokens, 49.0x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Fable 5 takes 1M tokens, MiniMax M2 205K.
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 | Bars | MiniMax M2 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 5 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 6 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 7 | 0 | ||
| General | 16 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 43 | 1 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index50
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 61.0% | Only MiniMax M2 measured |
| LiveBench coding | 98.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1624 | 1297 | Claude Fable 5 |
| AA Coding Index | 76.5 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 89.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 95.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 41.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 55.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 2.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 80.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 82.6% | Only MiniMax M2 measured |
| SciCode | 61.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 62.9% | 25.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 30.0% | Only MiniMax M2 measured |
| FrontierCode | 53.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 47.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 78.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| WeirdML | 91.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MirrorCode | 63.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 2041.3 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1518 | 1371 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1513 | 1373 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1631 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1651 | 1306 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1623 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 49.6 | 18.6 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 163.4 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 50.7 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1261 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1280 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1264 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1284 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1292 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1285 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1227 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1270 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveBench research | 86.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 92.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 53.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 56.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 38.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 49.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 73.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 15.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 98.5% | 86.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| APEX-Agents | 63.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 16.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| PostTrainBench | 41.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,680 | $161 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Search | 1229 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 89.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 89.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.6% | 77.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 55.5% | 13.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 85.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 98.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| SimpleBench | 81.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 47.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 52.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| EBR-bench | 39.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1507 | 1357 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1534 | 1338 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1509 | 1376 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1357 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1361 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 91.4% | 57.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 78.3 | Only MiniMax M2 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 78.3% | Only MiniMax M2 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 87.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 90.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| ProofBench | 95.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1516 | 1351 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1515 | 1368 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 91.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 88.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 71.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 76.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 82.0% | Only MiniMax M2 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1506 | 1348 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1480 | 1367 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1498 | 1349 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1480 | 1336 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1295 | 1143 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1316 | 1137 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1335 | 1118 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1304 | 1140 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1318 | 1098 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1310 | 1135 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1302 | 1100 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1329 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveBench design | 84.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index161
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 80.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 70.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 51.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 88.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 74.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| IFBench | 63.5% | 72.3% | MiniMax M2 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.3% | 64.3% | Claude Fable 5 |
| DTBench | 98.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMCA | 61.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 95.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 35.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1491 | 1340 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1502 | 1329 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1494 | 1286 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Vision | 1325 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1498 | 1364 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1482 | 1313 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1543 | 1366 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1486 | 1357 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1504 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1487 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1505 | 1336 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1498 | 1326 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1503 | 1330 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1494 | 1312 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1504 | 1361 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1510 | 1331 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1501 | 1295 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1482 | 1298 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1323 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1373 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1337 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1341 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1338 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1496 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 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
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2 | 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
MiniMax M2 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
MiniMax M2 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
MiniMax M2 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 | MiniMax M2 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | June 9, 2026 | October 23, 2025 |
| Context window | 1M | 205K |
| Input $/Mtok | $10.00 | $0.255 |
| Output $/Mtok | $50.00 | $1.02 |
| Coding index | 79.3 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 6 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.16 | $0.702 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Fable 5 better than MiniMax M2 for coding?
Only Claude Fable 5 has a coding score, 79.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; MiniMax M2 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick MiniMax M2 for output tokens 49.0x cheaper ($1.02 vs $50.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.702 against $2.16).
Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or MiniMax M2?
Claude Fable 5 costs $10.00 per million input tokens and $50.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M2 costs $0.255 and $1.02. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Claude Fable 5 costs $2.16 and MiniMax M2 $0.702.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5 or MiniMax M2?
Claude Fable 5, with 1M tokens against 205K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Fable 5 vs MiniMax M2 comparison based on?
44 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Fable 5's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M2's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.