Claude Fable 5 vs MiniMax M2.7

Claude Fable 5 leads MiniMax M2.7 on coding, 79.3 to 36.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and MiniMax M2.7 costs 41.7x less per output token ($1.20 vs $50.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 70 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Claude Fable 5 Replace MiniMax M2.7

Claude Fable 5Anthropic

Coding: 79.3
Overall: 79.0
Output $/M: $50.00

MiniMax M2.7MiniMax

Coding: 36.2
Overall: 44.5
Output $/M: $1.20

vs boards won of 70 shared

Claude Fable 5 or MiniMax M2.7: which to pick

Pick Claude Fable 5 for coding: it scores 79.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 36.2 for MiniMax M2.7.

Pick MiniMax M2.7 for output tokens 41.7x cheaper ($1.20 vs $50.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.64 against $2.16).

Model AClaude Fable 5Anthropic79.3/1006 independent benchmarks$2.16 per solved task Model BMiniMax M2.7MiniMax36.2/1003 independent benchmarks$0.64 per solved task

70574

Shared results: 70
Claude Fable 5 only: 57
MiniMax M2.7 only: 4
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
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 scores 79.3 against 36.2.
6 and 3 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 49.6 against 22.8.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 50.7 against 15.3.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 93.2% against 86.6%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only MiniMax M2.7 has a AIME result, 91.0%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 91.5% against 80.4%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 1295 against 1243.
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 M2.7
Claude Fable 5 $0.035, MiniMax M2.7 $0.0009 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
MiniMax M2.7
Claude Fable 5 $2.16, MiniMax M2.7 $0.64.
Published attempt cost and pass rate

At a glance

Coding index: Claude Fable 5 79.3 from 6 benchmarks, MiniMax M2.7 36.2 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category: Math, 40.3 points apart on average over 3 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap: ProofBench: Claude Fable 5 95.0% against MiniMax M2.7 3.0%, 92.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price: Claude Fable 5 $50.00 against MiniMax M2.7 $1.20 per million output tokens, 41.7x apart.
Context window: Claude Fable 5 takes 1M tokens, MiniMax M2.7 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.

Boards won, where both have a result
Category	Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7
Coding	16	0
Intelligence	2	0
Agentic work	6	0
Reasoning	6	0
Math	3	0
Knowledge	9	0
Web design	8	0
General	19	1
All shared boards	69	1

CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index160

Coding benchmarks for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7
Benchmark	Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7	Leader
LiveBench coding	98.3%	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
LMArena WebDev	1624	1399	Claude Fable 5
AA Coding Index	76.5	52.6	Claude Fable 5
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)	89.8%	79.9%	Claude Fable 5
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)	95.0%	73.8%	Claude Fable 5
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)	41.4%	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)	90.3%	11.9%	Claude Fable 5
Code migration (Vals AI)	55.1%	8.7%	Claude Fable 5
ProgramBench (Vals AI)	2.0%	0.0%	Claude Fable 5
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)	80.5%	48.7%	Claude Fable 5
SciCode	61.0%	50.1%	Claude Fable 5
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)	62.9%	39.4%	Claude Fable 5
Terminal-Bench	Not measured	45.1%	Only MiniMax M2.7 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%	37.0%	Claude Fable 5
MirrorCode	63.9%	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
ALE-Bench	2041.3	599.3	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: coding	1518	1454	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: software and IT	1513	1446	Claude Fable 5
LMArena WebDev: React	1631	1388	Claude Fable 5
LMArena WebDev: HTML	1651	1401	Claude Fable 5
LMArena WebDev: from an image	1623	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here

IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20

Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7
Benchmark	Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7	Leader
AA Intelligence Index	49.6	22.8	Claude Fable 5
Epoch Capabilities Index	163.4	145.8	Claude Fable 5

Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60

Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7
Benchmark	Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7	Leader
AA Agentic Index	50.7	15.3	Claude Fable 5
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%	27.9%	Claude Fable 5
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)	38.3%	6.9%	Claude Fable 5
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)	49.5%	10.6%	Claude Fable 5
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)	73.7%	28.4%	Claude Fable 5
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)	15.7%	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom	98.5%	84.8%	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	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
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

Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7
Benchmark	Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7	Leader
GPQA Diamond	93.2%	86.6%	Claude Fable 5
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%	87.4%	Claude Fable 5
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)	55.5%	29.6%	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	1422	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: expert	1534	1443	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English	1509	1441	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%	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here

MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30

Math benchmarks for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7
Benchmark	Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7	Leader
AIME	Not measured	91.0%	Only MiniMax M2.7 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%	3.0%	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: math	1516	1421	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: mathematical work	1515	1437	Claude Fable 5
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here

KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index90

Knowledge benchmarks for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7
Benchmark	Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7	Leader
MMLU Pro	91.5%	80.4%	Claude Fable 5
LegalBench (Vals AI)	88.6%	84.0%	Claude Fable 5
CaseLaw (Vals AI)	Not measured	60.9%	Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)	71.8%	61.2%	Claude Fable 5
TaxEval (Vals AI)	76.9%	66.6%	Claude Fable 5
MortgageTax (Vals AI)	68.9%	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)	56.1%	34.4%	Claude Fable 5
SimpleQA Verified	70.7%	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
LMArena Text: science	1506	1416	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare	1480	1409	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: legal and government	1498	1403	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: business and finance	1480	1407	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 index80

Web design benchmarks for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7
Benchmark	Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7	Leader
Design Arena: websites	1295	1243	Claude Fable 5
Design Arena: UI components	1316	1210	Claude Fable 5
Design Arena: game dev	1335	1209	Claude Fable 5
Design Arena: data viz	1304	1233	Claude Fable 5
Design Arena: 3D	1318	1195	Claude Fable 5
Design Arena: all code categories	1310	1233	Claude Fable 5
Design Arena: SVG	1302	1137	Claude Fable 5
Design Arena: ASCII art	1329	1136	Claude Fable 5
LiveBench design	84.7%	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured

GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index191

General benchmarks for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7
Benchmark	Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7	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%	79.9%	Claude Fable 5
Vals Multimodal Index	74.2%	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
IFBench	63.5%	75.7%	MiniMax M2.7
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)	82.3%	78.3%	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
ExploitBench	Not measured	13.3%	Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
LMArena Text	1491	1405	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: instruction following	1502	1405	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: creative writing	1494	1354	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Vision	1325	Not measured	Only Claude Fable 5 measured
LMArena Text: English	1498	1426	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: non-English	1482	1382	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: Chinese	1543	1442	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: German	1486	1398	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: Japanese	1504	1260	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: Korean	1487	1314	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: French	1505	1424	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: Spanish	1498	1402	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: Russian	1503	1383	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: Polish	1494	1387	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: multi-turn	1504	1412	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: longer queries	1510	1418	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: writing and language	1501	1376	Claude Fable 5
LMArena Text: entertainment and media	1482	1360	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 10 boards here

Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared

Image generation benchmarks for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7
Benchmark	Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7	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$0.035Fits in one request

MiniMax M2.7$0.0009Fits in one request

MiniMax M2.7 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Claude Fable 5$0.650Fits in one request

MiniMax M2.7$0.019Fits in one request

MiniMax M2.7 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Claude Fable 5$2.50Fits in one request

MiniMax M2.7$0.072Exceeds the context window

MiniMax M2.7 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 and MiniMax M2.7
Specification	Anthropic Claude Fable 5	MiniMax M2.7
Maker	Anthropic	MiniMax
Weights	No public weights listed	Open weights
Released	June 9, 2026	March 18, 2026
Context window	1M	205K
Input $/Mtok	$10.00	$0.30
Output $/Mtok	$50.00	$1.20
Coding index	79.3	36.2
Independent measurements behind it	6	3
Cost per solved task	$2.16	$0.64
Source	OpenRouter listing	OpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than MiniMax M2.7 for coding?

Pick Claude Fable 5 for coding: it scores 79.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 36.2 for MiniMax M2.7. Pick MiniMax M2.7 for output tokens 41.7x cheaper ($1.20 vs $50.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.64 against $2.16).

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude Fable 5 costs $10.00 per million input tokens and $50.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M2.7 costs $0.30 and $1.20. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Claude Fable 5 costs $2.16 and MiniMax M2.7 $0.64.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5 or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude Fable 5, with 1M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks is the Claude Fable 5 vs MiniMax M2.7 comparison based on?

70 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 M2.7's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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Claude Fable 5 or MiniMax M2.7: which to pick

Which one for your work

Coding

Intelligence

Agentic work

Reasoning

Math

Knowledge

Web design

Long documents

Everyday cost

Cost per solved task

At a glance

Benchmark by benchmark

What each workload costs

Chat turn

Repository review

Agent loop

Specification differences

Questions

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