Claude Fable 5 vs Hy4
Claude Fable 5 leads Hy4 on coding, 75.9 to 65.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Hy4 costs 40.0x less per output token ($1.2505 vs $50.00 per million). Updated November 5, 2026; 4 benchmarks have a result for both.
vs boards won of 4 shared
Claude Fable 5 or Hy4: which to pick
Pick Claude Fable 5 for coding: it scores 75.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 65.2 for Hy4.
Pick Hy4 for output tokens 40.0x cheaper ($1.2505 vs $50.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 1M tokens).
Model AClaude Fable 5Anthropic75.9/1005 independent benchmarks$2.16 per solved taskModel BHy4Tencent65.2/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 4
- Claude Fable 5 only
- 127
- Hy4 only
- 2
- Like-for-like categories
- 2 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 75.9 against 65.2.
5 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
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
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1294.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Hy4 has a Vals Index result, 59.4%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Hy4
Hy4 takes 1.05M tokens against 1M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Hy4
Claude Fable 5 $0.035, Hy4 $0.0010 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 75.9 from 5 benchmarks, Hy4 65.2 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 6.0 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Claude Fable 5 90.3% against Hy4 81.0%, 9.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Fable 5 $50.00 against Hy4 $1.2505 per million output tokens, 40.0x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Fable 5 takes 1M tokens, Hy4 1.05M.
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 | Hy4 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 2 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 4 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 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% | 39.4% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.3% | 81.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1512 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1630 | 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 |
| SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA | 39.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| SWE Atlas: Refactoring | 54.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| SWE Atlas: Test Writing | 55.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| GameBench 2 | 75.0 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 83.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 34.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 44.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 164.2 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 50.7 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1247 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1276 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1261 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1282 | 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 | 1231 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1173 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1251 | 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% | 34.4% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 49.5% | 41.4% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 12.5% | Only Hy4 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 |
| MCP Atlas | 83.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| τ³-Banking | 39.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index17 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.2% | 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% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 55.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| 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 | 1508 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1535 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1510 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| 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 7 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1518 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MathArena | 50.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Hy4 | 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 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1508 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1480 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1498 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1480 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| PRBench Finance | 53.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| PRBench Legal | 52.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1294 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1314 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1334 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1304 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1315 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1308 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1298 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1324 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index35 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Hy4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 59.4% | Only Hy4 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 70.4% | 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% | 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 | 1492 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1503 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1493 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1325 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1498 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1482 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1544 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1483 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1503 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1488 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1507 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1493 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1502 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1493 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1503 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1510 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1501 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1482 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| 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 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1313 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Hy4 | 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
Hy4$0.0010Fits in one request
Hy4 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Fable 5$0.650Fits in one request
Hy4$0.025Fits in one request
Hy4 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Fable 5$2.50Fits in one request
Hy4$0.096Fits in one request
Hy4 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 | Tencent Hy4 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Tencent |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | June 9, 2026 | November 4, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $10.00 | $0.417 |
| Output $/Mtok | $50.00 | $1.2505 |
| Coding index | 75.9 | 65.2 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.16 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Fable 5 better than Hy4 for coding?
Pick Claude Fable 5 for coding: it scores 75.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 65.2 for Hy4. Pick Hy4 for output tokens 40.0x cheaper ($1.2505 vs $50.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 1M tokens).
Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Hy4?
Claude Fable 5 costs $10.00 per million input tokens and $50.00 per million output tokens; Hy4 costs $0.417 and $1.2505. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Fable 5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5 or Hy4?
Hy4, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Fable 5 vs Hy4 comparison based on?
4 benchmarks have a result for both models as of November 5, 2026. Claude Fable 5's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Hy4's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.