Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Large
Claude Fable 5 leads Mistral Large on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 49.6 to 5.8, and Mistral Large costs 8.3x less per output token ($6.00 vs $50.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 37 benchmarks have a result for both.
vs boards won of 37 shared
Claude Fable 5 or Mistral Large: which to pick
Only Claude Fable 5 has a coding score, 79.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Large has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Mistral Large for output tokens 8.3x cheaper ($6.00 vs $50.00 per million).
Model AClaude Fable 5Anthropic79.3/1006 independent benchmarks$2.16 per solved taskModel BMistral LargeMistral AINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 37
- Claude Fable 5 only
- 90
- Mistral Large only
- 7
- 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 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 5.8.
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
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 93.2% against 47.7%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only Mistral Large has a AIME result, 9.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 91.5% against 69.7%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1296.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 takes 1M tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Mistral Large
Claude Fable 5 $0.035, Mistral Large $0.0050 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has the number, $2.16.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Fable 5 79.3 from 6 benchmarks, Mistral Large not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Reasoning, 48.6 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run): Claude Fable 5 92.6% against Mistral Large 35.1%, 57.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Fable 5 $50.00 against Mistral Large $6.00 per million output tokens, 8.3x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Fable 5 takes 1M tokens, Mistral Large 128K.
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 | Mistral Large | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 3 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 6 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 6 | 0 | ||
| General | 18 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 37 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index30
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 98.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1624 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 76.5 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 89.8% | 37.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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 | 17.8% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| SciCode | 61.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 62.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 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 | 1275 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1513 | 1274 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1631 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1651 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| 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
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 49.6 | 5.8 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 163.4 | 122.1 | Claude Fable 5 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index23 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Large | 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 | 1283 | 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 | 1277 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1295 | 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% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| 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
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.2% | 47.7% | 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% | 35.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 55.5% | 3.5% | 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 | 1257 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1534 | 1208 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1509 | 1268 | 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 index20
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 9.2% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 74.4% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.2% | Only Mistral Large 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 | 1261 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1515 | 1257 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 91.5% | 69.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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% | 63.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 76.2% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 51.5% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MMLU | Not measured | 68.8% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1506 | 1260 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1480 | 1255 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1498 | 1275 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1480 | 1238 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1296 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1319 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1335 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1304 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1319 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1310 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1302 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| 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 index180
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Large | 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% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| DTBench | 98.4% | 60.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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 | 1265 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1502 | 1249 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1494 | 1242 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Vision | 1325 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1498 | 1284 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1482 | 1235 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1543 | 1239 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1486 | 1242 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1504 | 1170 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1487 | 1202 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1505 | 1325 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1498 | 1268 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1503 | 1252 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1494 | 1157 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1504 | 1260 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1510 | 1261 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1501 | 1261 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1482 | 1230 | 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 | Mistral Large | 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
Mistral Large$0.0050Fits in one request
Mistral Large costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Fable 5$0.650Fits in one request
Mistral Large$0.118Fits in one request
Mistral Large costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Fable 5$2.50Fits in one request
Mistral Large$0.460Exceeds the context window
Mistral Large 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 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | June 9, 2026 | February 26, 2024 |
| Context window | 1M | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $10.00 | $2.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $50.00 | $6.00 |
| Coding index | 79.3 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 6 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.16 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Fable 5 better than Mistral Large for coding?
Only Claude Fable 5 has a coding score, 79.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Large has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Mistral Large for output tokens 8.3x cheaper ($6.00 vs $50.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Mistral Large?
Claude Fable 5 costs $10.00 per million input tokens and $50.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Large costs $2.00 and $6.00. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Fable 5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5 or Mistral Large?
Claude Fable 5, with 1M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Large comparison based on?
37 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Fable 5's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Mistral Large's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.