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Claude Fable 5.1 vs GLM 5.2

Full profiles: Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic) and GLM 5.2 (Zhipu AI): every benchmark, price and rank.

Updated · Data from 9 sources

As of 29 Oct 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 is ahead of GLM 5.2 on quality (67.0 vs 60.2 on the BenchLeader Index), but GLM 5.2 is 9.3× cheaper at $2.15 vs $20.00 per 1M tokens blended. Choose Claude Fable 5.1 for knowledge (73 vs 44), maths (73 vs 57), and coding (71 vs 62); choose GLM 5.2 for fast first answers (24.1 s vs 179.6 s) and agents & tools (63 vs 61), where it also streams faster.

Key facts (as of 29 Oct 2026)

  • Claude Fable 5.1 scores 67.0 on the BenchLeader Index and GLM 5.2 scores 60.2 (BenchLeader, 29 Oct 2026).
  • Claude Fable 5.1 costs $20.00 per 1M tokens blended (list price, 29 Oct 2026).
  • GLM 5.2 costs $2.15 per 1M tokens blended (list price, 29 Oct 2026).
  • GLM 5.2 streams faster than Claude Fable 5.1 (Artificial Analysis, 7-day median, 29 Oct 2026).
  • Of the 31 benchmarks both models have, Claude Fable 5.1 leads 31 (BenchLeader, 29 Oct 2026).
  • On Arena WebDev, Claude Fable 5.1 is rated 1745 and GLM 5.2 1606 (LMArena, as published by 29 Oct 2026).

Which to pick for…

The pick's numbers come first. Category scores on the BenchLeader scale (50 is the average model, 15 points one standard deviation). High confidence means a lead of half a standard deviation or more; under one point is called either.

Use casePickWhyConfidence
CodingClaude Fable 5.171 vs 62 category score; Arena WebDev 1745 vs 1606High
Agents & tool useGLM 5.263 vs 61 category score; τ³-Banking (AA) 34.6% vs 47.2%Medium
MathsClaude Fable 5.173 vs 57 category score; FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 90.2% vs 59.2%High
ReasoningClaude Fable 5.171 vs 66 category score; Arena Hard Prompts 1523 vs 1496Medium
KnowledgeClaude Fable 5.173 vs 44 category score; SimpleQA Verified 70.8% vs 34.2%High
Long documentsClaude Fable 5.168 vs 64 category score; AA-LCR v1.1 85.3% vs 78.3%Medium
Chat quality (human preference)Claude Fable 5.170 vs 67 on Arena votesMedium
Lowest costGLM 5.2$2.15 vs $20.00 per 1M blended; agentic coding session $0.102 vs $0.800–
Fastest first answerGLM 5.224.1 s (GLM 5.2 (max)) vs 179.6 s (Claude Fable 5.1 (max)) to the first answer token–
High volume on a budgetNeither flagshipA smaller model is usually the better fit: Cheapest good LLMs, Fastest LLMs–

Key differences

  • Claude Fable 5.1 (max) leads on quality: 67.0 vs 60.2.
  • Claude Fable 5.1 (max) is stronger in coding, human preference, knowledge, long context, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
  • GLM 5.2 (max) is stronger in agents & tools, instruction following.
  • GLM 5.2 (max) is 9.3× cheaper ($2.15 vs $20.00 per 1M blended).
  • GLM 5.2 (max) streams 1.4× faster (94 vs 66 tokens per second).

At a glance

SpecClaude Fable 5.1GLM 5.2
DeveloperAnthropicZhipu AI
Released1 Sept 202616 Jun 2026
Context window (tokens)1,000,0001,000,000
Compared atClaude Fable 5.1 (max)GLM 5.2 (max)
Open weightsNoYes
Price in / out / cached input per 1M$10.00 / $50.00 / $0.250$1.40 / $4.40 / $0.299

Category by category

Category scores on the BenchLeader scale: 50 is the average evaluated model, 15 points is one standard deviation. A gap under one point is called level.

CategoryClaude Fable 5.1 (max)GLM 5.2 (max)Leader
Reasoning70.865.9Claude Fable 5.1
Coding70.762.1Claude Fable 5.1
Agents & tools60.562.8GLM 5.2
Maths72.657.2Claude Fable 5.1
Knowledge72.943.6Claude Fable 5.1
Instruction following–71.7not comparable
Human preference69.966.5Claude Fable 5.1
Multimodal67.1–not comparable
Long context67.664.0Claude Fable 5.1

Where sources disagree

Across the 31 benchmarks both have, Claude Fable 5.1 leads 31, GLM 5.2 leads 0. Every overall index that rates both puts Claude Fable 5.1 ahead.

Overall indexClaude Fable 5.1 (max)GLM 5.2 (max)Leader
BenchLeader Index67.060.2Claude Fable 5.1
Arena Text15031475Claude Fable 5.1

Each publisher runs its own tasks, harnesses and effort settings, so their overall verdicts can differ; BenchLeader reconciles them on one scale. † measured at another effort setting of the same model (the publisher did not test the one compared here).

Price, speed and latency

List prices blended at three input tokens per output token. Per-task prices use the token counts on the methodology page; suite cost is what Artificial Analysis paid to run its whole Intelligence Index.

MeasureClaude Fable 5.1 (max)GLM 5.2 (max)
Blended price per 1M tokens$20.00$2.15
Input / output per 1M$10.00 / $50.00$1.40 / $4.40
Cached input per 1M$0.250$0.299
Price per task: chat reply$0.019$0.0019
Price per task: summarize a 30-page report$0.150$0.019
Price per task: code edit$0.135$0.015
Price per task: agentic coding session$0.800$0.102
Price per task: structured extraction$0.030$0.0037
Cost to run a full benchmark suite$12.99–
Output speed66 tok/s94 tok/s
Time to first answer179.6 s24.1 s
Time to a complete answer187.2 s29.5 s

Each model is compared at its best-ranked reasoning-effort setting. Claude Fable 5.1 (max) scores 67.0 and takes 180 s to its first answer token; Claude Fable 5.1 scores 66.4 in 3 s, Claude Fable 5.1 (xhigh) scores 64.9 in 58 s. GLM 5.2 (max) scores 60.2 and takes 24 s to its first answer token; GLM 5.2 scores 51.6 in 1 s, GLM 5.2 (no reasoning) scores 46.0 in 1 s. Higher effort means more thinking before the answer: better scores, longer waits and more tokens billed. How reasoning effort changes scores and cost.

Every benchmark

155 benchmarks, grouped by category; each name links to the board and its leaders. † measured at another effort setting of the same model, shown for reference and not counted as a win.

MetricPublisherClaude Fable 5.1 (max)GLM 5.2 (max)
BenchLeader IndexBenchLeader67.060.2
Agents & tools scoreBenchLeader60.562.8
Coding scoreBenchLeader70.762.1
Human preference scoreBenchLeader69.966.5
Knowledge scoreBenchLeader72.943.6
Long context scoreBenchLeader67.664.0
Maths scoreBenchLeader72.657.2
Multimodal scoreBenchLeader67.1–
Reasoning scoreBenchLeader70.865.9
Instruction following scoreBenchLeader–71.7
Blended price $/MBenchLeader$20.00$2.15
Output speedBenchLeader66 tok/s94 tok/s
Time to first answerBenchLeader179.6 s24.1 s
Context windowBenchLeader1,000,000 tokens1,000,000 tokens
Reasoning
GPQA DiamondEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–91.9%
Humanity's Last ExamScale AI / CAIS46.5%†–
SimpleBenchSimpleBench–58.8%†
Arena Hard PromptsArena (LMArena)15231496
LiveBench 2.0 ReasoningLiveBench91.7%†–
LiveBench 1.0 ReasoningLiveBench91.7%78.6%†
GPQA Diamond (AA)Artificial Analysis93.7%89.5%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)Artificial Analysis59.1%41.1%
HLE-Diamond (AA)Artificial Analysis60.1%–
GPQA Diamond (Vals)Vals AI93.4%†85.6%†
Kagi LLM BenchmarkKagi LLM Benchmark–62.6%†
ARC-AGI-1ARC Prize97.5%77.0%†
ARC-AGI-2ARC Prize90.0%22.8%†
CritPtArtificial Analysis29.7%20.9%
CritPt v2 hard subset (AA)Artificial Analysis51.0%–
MysteryMechanismVals AI47.8%†–
Chess PuzzlesEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub48.0%22.0%
Mystery Game PuzzlesEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub58.0%18.0%†
LMCAEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub65.5%†45.8%
DTBenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub97.6%†93.6%
Coding
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch)Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub–78.7%
SciCodeSciCode63.1%51.2%
WeirdMLWeirdML92.9%70.1%
FrontierCodeCognition50.9%†24.5%†
GSO-BenchGSO-Bench88.2%†–
Show all 155 benchmarks
MetricPublisherClaude Fable 5.1 (max)GLM 5.2 (max)
Coding
Arena CodingArena (LMArena)15381514
Arena WebDevArena (LMArena)17451606
LiveBench 2.0 CodingLiveBench97.7%†–
LiveBench 1.0 CodingLiveBench86.4%79.7%†
LiveCodeBenchVals AI90.5%†69.5%†
IOIVals AI90.8%†–
SWE-bench (Vals)Vals AI–82.8%
Code MigrationVals AI54.6%†37.9%
ProgramBenchVals AI7.0%†0.5%
SWE-bench MultimodalVals AI61.3%†–
Vibe Code Bench 1-100Vals AI28.0%†–
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Vals AI90.3%†64.0%
SWE Atlas: Codebase QnAScale AI SEAL60.0%†48.1%†
SWE Atlas: RefactoringScale AI SEAL56.7%†42.4%†
SWE Atlas: Test WritingScale AI SEAL67.0%†41.5%†
MirrorCodeEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub73.3%†–
Surface Evolver BenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–55.6%†
DeepSWE v1.1Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub–43.8%
CursorBenchCursor51.8%–
ALE-BenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub2143.2†1010.2
FrontierSWEEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub56.3%–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)Artificial Analysis52.0%1.0%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)Artificial Analysis91.4%77.9%
Startrise FrontendStartrise77.1%†72.1%†
FrontierCode 1.1 (AA)Artificial Analysis49.0%–
FrontierCode 2.0 (AA)Artificial Analysis31.6%–
Agents & tools
Terminal-BenchTerminal-Bench57.9%–
Remote Labor IndexScale AI / CAIS17.9%†–
APEX-AgentsMercor68.6%†45.2%†
Arena AgentArena (LMArena)13.91.7
LiveBench Long AgenticLiveBench77.9%†–
LiveBench BrowserLiveBench89.8%†–
LiveBench Agentic CodingLiveBench66.1%51.8%†
Terminal-Bench HardArtificial Analysis–50.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)Artificial Analysis–99.1%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)Vals AI85.0%†67.8%
MCP AtlasScale AI SEAL87.2%†77.8%†
HiL-BenchScale AI SEAL61.5%†43.7%†
τ³-bench Bankingτ²-bench–37.1%†
GDPval-AA v2.1, normalised scoreArtificial Analysis62.7%–
GDPval-AA v2.1Artificial Analysis1764–
τ³-Banking (AA)Artificial Analysis47.2%34.6%
ITBench SRE (AA)Artificial Analysis49.5%42.7%
Analyst Agent (AA)Artificial Analysis57.5%–
APEX-Agents (AA)Artificial Analysis–33.7%
CUA-benchVals AI13.2%–
CyberBenchVals AI70.4%†–
Finance Agent v2Vals AI58.9%†49.7%†
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1Vals AI6.7%†7.1%
Legal Research BenchVals AI55.3%†31.3%
Robo-benchVals AI5.8%–
SkillsBenchVals AI61.5%†45.1%
SREBenchVals AI22.9%†0.0%
Tax Agent BenchVals AI49.2%†–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)Vals AI58.1%†–
Terminal-Bench ScienceVals AI40.0%†–
Time Horizon Index: KSPVals AI63.3%†–
Arena SearchArena (LMArena)1233†–
PostTrainBenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–31.7%
GBAEvalEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–0.0%†
Vending-Bench 2Andon Labs5421.6†8313.8†
AutomationBenchArtificial Analysis59.4%28.4%
GDP.pdf (AA)Artificial Analysis26.2%10.4%
Harvey LAB-AA v1.1Harvey6.4%–
EnterpriseOps-GymArtificial Analysis–42.7%
AA-Briefcase v1.1Artificial Analysis16691227
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA)Artificial Analysis43.3%–
CWE-Bench (AA)Artificial Analysis50.8%–
DeepSec-Bench (AA)Artificial Analysis23.5%–
CyberGym end-to-end (AA)Artificial Analysis0.8%–
Maths
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub90.2%59.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub87.8%29.3%
OTIS Mock AIMEEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub100.0%86.4%
ProofBenchVals AI100.0%35.0%
LiveBench MathematicsLiveBench97.0%89.8%†
AIME 2026MathArena–90.0%†
HMMT February 2026MathArena–92.4%†
MathArena ApexMathArena–19.8%†
Arena MathsArena (LMArena)15291488
Knowledge
SimpleQA VerifiedEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub70.8%34.2%
LiveBench 2.0 Data AnalysisLiveBench80.3%†–
LiveBench ResearchLiveBench82.0%†–
LiveBench 1.0 Data AnalysisLiveBench80.3%73.7%†
AA-Omniscience v1.1Artificial Analysis46.3–
MMLU-ProVals AI92.4%†86.7%†
LegalBenchVals AI88.5%†84.1%†
CorpFinVals AI–66.1%†
TaxEvalVals AI76.0%†73.3%†
PRBench FinanceScale AI SEAL50.8%†–
PRBench LegalScale AI SEAL51.6%†–
Excel Modeling BenchmarkVals AI76.7%†61.5%†
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1Vals AI76.7%†–
MedCodeVals AI53.5%†40.8%†
MedScribeVals AI91.3%†83.5%†
Public Benefits Bench v1.1Vals AI74.9%†–
DrugDiscoveryBenchScale AI SEAL–36.2%†
EBR-benchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub57.1%9.5%
GDP.pdfEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub27.6%–
AA-Omniscience v1.1: accuracyArtificial Analysis68.4%–
AA-Omniscience v1.1: non-hallucinationArtificial Analysis30.0%–
HealthBench Professional (AA)OpenAI57.8%–
Instruction following
LiveBench LanguageLiveBench89.5%76.2%†
LiveBench Instruction FollowingLiveBench73.0%62.3%†
IFBenchArtificial Analysis–73.3%
Arena Instruction FollowingArena (LMArena)15011469
Human preference
Arena TextArena (LMArena)15031475
EQ-Bench 4EQ-Bench–1208†
Arena Creative WritingArena (LMArena)14871453
Arena Multi-turnArena (LMArena)14881475
Arena Longer QueriesArena (LMArena)15111486
Multimodal
Arena VisionArena (LMArena)1320–
LiveBench DesignLiveBench83.4%†–
MMMU-Pro (Vals)Vals AI90.6%†–
MortgageTaxVals AI70.8%†–
Blueprint-Bench 2Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub41.9%†–
Code2Video-AAArtificial Analysis1325–
AA-3DArtificial Analysis1135–
Long context
AA-LCR v1.1Artificial Analysis85.3%78.3%
Arena DocumentArena (LMArena)1493–
MLCRArtificial Analysis15.6%12.8%
Composite
Epoch Capabilities IndexEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub166.5†151.9†
LiveBench 2.0LiveBench85.7%†–
LiveBench 1.0LiveBench83.4%73.2%†
AA Intelligence Index v5.0Artificial Analysis49.0–
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2Artificial Analysis53.433.7
AA Progress Index v1Artificial Analysis340.8302.5
Vals RSI IndexVals AI36.1%–
AA Cyber IndexArtificial Analysis25.0–
Safety & honesty
FORTRESSScale AI SEAL13.7%†–
Metadata
AA Openness IndexArtificial Analysis–44.4

Data as of 2026-10-29. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

What changed

  • GLM 5.2 (max): cached input price moved from $0.26/M to $0.30/M (15% up).
  • Claude Fable 5.1 (max): BenchLeader Index 67.9 → 67.1.
  • GLM 5.2 (max): BenchLeader Index 61.3 → 60.2.
  • Claude Fable 5.1 (max): 5 new results (AA Intelligence Index v5.0, AA Progress Index v1, HLE-Diamond (AA)…); 3 score revisions; cost per task moved from $7.63/M to $13.04/M (71% up).
  • GLM 5.2 (max): 1 new result (AA Progress Index v1); cached input price moved from $0.30/M to $0.26/M (13% down).
  • GLM 5.2 (max): BenchLeader Index 61.8 → 61.3.
  • GLM 5.2 (max): cached input price moved from $0.26/M to $0.30/M (15% up).
  • GLM 5.2 (max): cost per task moved from $1.47/M to $1.28/M (13% down); cached input price moved from $0.30/M to $0.26/M (13% down).
  • GLM 5.2 (max): 1 new result (AA-Briefcase v1.1); cached input price moved from $0.26/M to $0.30/M (15% up).
  • GLM 5.2 (max): cached input price moved from $0.30/M to $0.26/M (13% down).

Rankings: Best LLM overall · Best LLM for coding · Best LLM for agents · Best cheap LLMs

Claude Fable 5.1 vs GLM 5.2: questions

Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than GLM 5.2?
Claude Fable 5.1 (max) leads on quality: 67.0 vs 60.2. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Claude Fable 5.1 (max) is ahead overall as of 29 Oct 2026, but check the category scores for your use.
Claude Fable 5.1 vs GLM 5.2: which is cheaper, and will that change?
GLM 5.2 is cheaper today: $2.15 against $20.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token. No price change has been announced for either.
Is Claude Fable 5.1 or GLM 5.2 better for coding?
Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher in coding (71 vs 62 on the category index, where 50 is average). On Arena WebDev, the top shared coding benchmark, it is 1745 for Claude Fable 5.1 against 1606 for GLM 5.2.
Which is faster, Claude Fable 5.1 or GLM 5.2?
GLM 5.2 streams faster (94 vs 66 output tokens per second, Artificial Analysis 7-day median).
Is Claude Fable 5.1 or GLM 5.2 better for agents and tool use?
GLM 5.2 scores higher in agentic tasks (63 vs 61 on the category index, where 50 is average). On τ³-Banking (AA), the top shared agents & tools benchmark, it is 47.2% for Claude Fable 5.1 against 34.6% for GLM 5.2.
More questions (4)
Which is better for long documents?
Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on long-context benchmarks (68 vs 64). Both accept 1,000,000 tokens of context.
Which has lower latency?
GLM 5.2 answers first: 24.1 s against 179.6 s to the first answer token, as Artificial Analysis measures it. Reasoning effort drives most of this: a higher setting thinks longer before it answers.
Do independent benchmarks agree on Claude Fable 5.1 vs GLM 5.2?
Across the 31 benchmarks both have, Claude Fable 5.1 leads 31, GLM 5.2 leads 0. Every overall index that rates both puts Claude Fable 5.1 ahead.
When was Claude Fable 5.1 released?
Claude Fable 5.1 was released on 1 Sept 2026.