Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Updated October 21, 2026. 80 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Claude Fable 5 for coding: it scores 82.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 37.4 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
Pick Qwen3.6 Plus when output tokens cost 25.6x less, or when a solved task costs $1.19 against $2.16.
- Shared results
- 80
- Claude Fable 5 only
- 46
- Qwen3.6 Plus only
- 3
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
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, four public coding benchmarks
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 scores 82.1 against 37.4.
2 and 1 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 49.6 against 27.0.
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 87.4%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only Qwen3.6 Plus has a AIME result, 94.6%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 91.5% against 87.7%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads, 1296 against 1243.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 1M tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.6 Plus
Claude Fable 5 $0.035, Qwen3.6 Plus $0.0013 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
Qwen3.6 Plus
Claude Fable 5 $2.16, Qwen3.6 Plus $1.19.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Fable 5 82.1 from 2 benchmarks, Qwen3.6 Plus 37.4 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Coding, 23.9 points apart on average over 15 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Claude Fable 5 90.3% against Qwen3.6 Plus 25.6%, 64.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Fable 5 $50.00 against Qwen3.6 Plus $1.95 per million output tokens, 25.6x apart.
- Context window
- Both take 1M tokens.
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 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 15 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 6 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 9 | 1 | ||
| Math | 4 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 11 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 8 | 0 | ||
| General | 23 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 78 | 2 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index150
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 98.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1624 | 1461 | Claude Fable 5 |
| AA Coding Index | 76.5 | 54.5 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 89.8% | 86.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 95.0% | 73.4% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 41.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.3% | 25.6% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 55.1% | 11.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 2.0% | 0.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 80.5% | 53.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SciCode | 61.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 62.9% | 43.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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 | 670.1 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1518 | 1467 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1513 | 1462 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1631 | 1454 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1651 | 1463 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1623 | 1472 | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 49.6 | 27.0 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 163.4 | 147.3 | Claude Fable 5 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | 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 | 1289 | 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% | 40.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 38.3% | 7.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 49.5% | 14.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 73.7% | 32.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 15.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 98.5% | 97.7% | 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 | $5,115 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Search | 1229 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index91
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.2% | 87.4% | Claude Fable 5 |
| LiveBench reasoning | 89.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 89.3% | 84.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.6% | 88.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 55.5% | 27.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 85.9% | 88.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| 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% | 14.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 52.0% | 12.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| EBR-bench | 39.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1507 | 1448 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1534 | 1454 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1509 | 1455 | 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 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 94.6% | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 100.0% | 93.3% | Claude Fable 5 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 87.0% | 38.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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 | 1449 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1515 | 1448 | 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 index110
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 91.5% | 87.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 88.6% | 84.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 51.5% | Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 71.8% | 61.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 76.9% | 74.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.9% | 68.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 56.1% | 36.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | 44.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: science | 1506 | 1439 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1480 | 1442 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1498 | 1437 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1480 | 1430 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1296 | 1243 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1318 | 1233 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1336 | 1211 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1304 | 1228 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1319 | 1202 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1310 | 1236 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1302 | 1160 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1328 | 1115 | 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 index231
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | 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% | 44.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 88.5% | 77.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 74.2% | 51.5% | Claude Fable 5 |
| IFBench | 63.5% | 75.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.3% | 78.3% | Claude Fable 5 |
| DTBench | 98.4% | 81.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMCA | 61.2% | 33.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| CL-bench | Not measured | 20.3% | Only Qwen3.6 Plus 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 | 1436 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1502 | 1424 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1494 | 1404 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Vision | 1325 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1498 | 1445 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1482 | 1424 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1543 | 1477 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1486 | 1451 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1504 | 1390 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1487 | 1379 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1505 | 1455 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1498 | 1432 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1503 | 1434 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1494 | 1433 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1504 | 1438 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1510 | 1439 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1501 | 1418 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1482 | 1402 | 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
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | 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
Qwen3.6 Plus costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3.6 Plus costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3.6 Plus 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 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | June 9, 2026 | April 2, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $10.00 | $0.325 |
| Output $/Mtok | $50.00 | $1.95 |
| Coding index | 82.1 | 37.4 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.16 | $1.19 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Fable 5 better than Qwen3.6 Plus for coding?
Pick Claude Fable 5 for coding: it scores 82.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 37.4 for Qwen3.6 Plus. Pick Qwen3.6 Plus when output tokens cost 25.6x less, or when a solved task costs $1.19 against $2.16.
Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3.6 Plus?
Claude Fable 5 costs $10.00 per million input tokens and $50.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.325 and $1.95. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Claude Fable 5 costs $2.16 and Qwen3.6 Plus $1.19.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3.6 Plus?
Neither: both take 1M tokens.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.6 Plus comparison based on?
80 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Fable 5's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.6 Plus's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.