Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 3 Flash
Full profiles: Claude Fable 5.2 (Anthropic) and Gemini 3 Flash (Google): every benchmark, price and rank.
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As of 9 Nov 2026, Claude Fable 5.2 is ahead of Gemini 3 Flash on quality (69.4 vs 58.9 on the BenchLeader Index), but Gemini 3 Flash is 14× cheaper at $1.13 vs $16.00 per 1M tokens blended. Claude Fable 5.2 leads in every category we measure both in. Gemini 3 Flash streams ~2× faster.
Key facts (as of 9 Nov 2026)
- Claude Fable 5.2 scores 69.4 on the BenchLeader Index and Gemini 3 Flash scores 58.9 (BenchLeader, 9 Nov 2026).
- Claude Fable 5.2 costs $16.00 per 1M tokens blended (list price, 9 Nov 2026).
- Gemini 3 Flash costs $1.13 per 1M tokens blended (list price, 9 Nov 2026).
- Gemini 3 Flash streams ~2× faster than Claude Fable 5.2 (Artificial Analysis, 7-day median, 9 Nov 2026).
- Of the 3 benchmarks both models have, Claude Fable 5.2 leads 3 (BenchLeader, 9 Nov 2026).
Claude Fable 5.2 benchmarks max Anthropic
Gemini 3 Flash benchmarks thinking GoogleAdd a third modelWhich 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 case | Pick | Why | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long documents | Claude Fable 5.2 | 66 vs 64 category score; AA-LCR v1.1 83.3% vs 78.0% | Medium |
| Lowest cost | Gemini 3 Flash | $1.13 vs $16.00 per 1M blended; agentic coding session $0.042 vs $0.640 | – |
| Fastest first answer | Claude Fable 5.2 | 3.0 s (Claude Fable 5.2 (max)) vs 4.8 s (Gemini 3 Flash (thinking)) to the first answer token | – |
| High volume on a budget | Neither flagship | A smaller model is usually the better fit: Cheapest good LLMs, Fastest LLMs | – |
Key differences
- Claude Fable 5.2 (max) leads on quality: 69.4 vs 58.9.
- Claude Fable 5.2 (max) is stronger in coding, knowledge, long context, reasoning.
- Gemini 3 Flash (thinking) is stronger in agents & tools, instruction following, multimodal.
- Gemini 3 Flash (thinking) is 14× cheaper ($1.13 vs $16.00 per 1M blended).
- Gemini 3 Flash (thinking) streams 2.7× faster (192 vs 72 tokens per second).
At a glance
| Spec | Claude Fable 5.2 | Gemini 3 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Anthropic | |
| Released | 9 Nov 2026 | 17 Dec 2025 |
| Context window (tokens) | 1,000,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Compared at | Claude Fable 5.2 (max) | Gemini 3 Flash (thinking) |
| Open weights | No | No |
| Price in / out / cached input per 1M | $8.00 / $40.00 / $0.200 | $0.500 / $3.00 / $0.050 |
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.
| Category | Claude Fable 5.2 (max) | Gemini 3 Flash (thinking) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 78.4 | – | not comparable |
| Coding | 80.2 | – | not comparable |
| Agents & tools | – | 55.1 | not comparable |
| Knowledge | 81.7 | – | not comparable |
| Instruction following | – | 75.9 | not comparable |
| Multimodal | – | 62.4 | not comparable |
| Long context | 66.4 | 63.6 | Claude Fable 5.2 |
On one chart
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Dashed: that model has no result on the axis it crosses; the line only joins its neighbours.
Not drawn, no result for these models: Maths, Human preference.
ModelIndex
Where sources disagree
Across the 3 benchmarks both have, Claude Fable 5.2 leads 3, Gemini 3 Flash leads 0. Every overall index that rates both puts Claude Fable 5.2 ahead.
| Overall index | Claude Fable 5.2 (max) | Gemini 3 Flash (thinking) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 69.4 | 58.9 | Claude Fable 5.2 |
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. Cost, tokens and time per benchmark task are measured: Artificial Analysis’ averages over its whole Intelligence Index run.
| Measure | Claude Fable 5.2 (max) | Gemini 3 Flash (thinking) |
|---|---|---|
| Blended price per 1M tokens | $16.00 | $1.13 |
| Input / output per 1M | $8.00 / $40.00 | $0.500 / $3.00 |
| Cached input per 1M | $0.200 | $0.050 |
| Price per task: chat reply | $0.015 | $0.0011 |
| Price per task: summarize a 30-page report | $0.120 | $0.0078 |
| Price per task: code edit | $0.108 | $0.0075 |
| Price per task: agentic coding session | $0.640 | $0.042 |
| Price per task: structured extraction | $0.024 | $0.0016 |
| Agentic coding session, input mostly cached | $0.289 | $0.022 |
| Cost per benchmark task (AA Index) | $26.54 | – |
| Output tokens per task (AA Index) | 274k | – |
| Of which reasoning | 193k | – |
| Output speed | 72 tok/s | 192 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 3.0 s | 4.8 s |
| Time to a complete answer | – | 12.0 s |
Each model is compared at its best-ranked reasoning-effort setting. Claude Fable 5.2 (max) scores 69.4 and takes 3 s to its first answer token; Claude Fable 5.2 (high) scores 68.9 in 3 s, Claude Fable 5.2 (xhigh) scores 68.7 in 3 s. Gemini 3 Flash (thinking) scores 58.9 and takes 5 s to its first answer token; Gemini 3 Flash (high) scores 58.3 in 1 s, Gemini 3 Flash scores 56.9 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
136 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.
| Metric | Publisher | Claude Fable 5.2 (max) | Gemini 3 Flash (thinking) |
|---|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | BenchLeader | 69.4 | 58.9 |
| Coding score | BenchLeader | 80.2 | – |
| Knowledge score | BenchLeader | 81.7 | – |
| Long context score | BenchLeader | 66.4 | 63.6 |
| Reasoning score | BenchLeader | 78.4 | – |
| Agents & tools score | BenchLeader | – | 55.1 |
| Instruction following score | BenchLeader | – | 75.9 |
| Multimodal score | BenchLeader | – | 62.4 |
| Blended price $/M | BenchLeader | $16.00 | $1.13 |
| Output speed | BenchLeader | 72 tok/s | 192 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | BenchLeader | 3.0 s | 4.8 s |
| Context window | BenchLeader | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Reasoning | |||
| GPQA Diamond | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 83.2%† |
| SimpleBench | SimpleBench | – | 61.1%† |
| Arena Hard Prompts | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1493† |
| LiveBench 2.0 Reasoning | LiveBench | 88.8%† | – |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 89.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 74.3% | 36.6% |
| HLE-Diamond (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 80.2% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Vals AI | – | 87.9%† |
| ARC-AGI-1 | ARC Prize | 97.5% | 84.7%† |
| ARC-AGI-2 | ARC Prize | 92.5% | 33.6%† |
| ARC-AGI-3 | ARC Prize | 94.9% | – |
| CritPt | Artificial Analysis | 35.4% | 8.6% |
| CritPt v2 hard subset (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 76.5% | – |
| MysteryMechanism | Vals AI | 51.8%† | – |
| SciPredict | Scale AI SEAL | – | 22.2%† |
| Chess Puzzles | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 40.0%† |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 20.0%† |
| LMCA | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 43.1%† |
| DTBench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 89.1%† |
| ForecastBench | ForecastBench | – | 64.7%† |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch) | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 75.4%† |
| WeirdML | WeirdML | – | 61.6%† |
| GSO-Bench | GSO-Bench | – | 9.8%† |
| Arena Coding | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1506† |
| Arena WebDev | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1440† |
Show all 136 benchmarks
| Metric | Publisher | Claude Fable 5.2 (max) | Gemini 3 Flash (thinking) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | |||
| LiveBench 2.0 Coding | LiveBench | 79.2%† | – |
| SciCode (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 67.7% | – |
| LiveCodeBench | Vals AI | – | 85.6%† |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Vals AI | – | 75.0%† |
| SWE-Bench Pro | Scale AI SEAL | – | 34.6%† |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | SWE-bench | – | 75.8%† |
| SWE-bench Verified (any scaffold) | SWE-bench | – | 75.8%† |
| Code Migration | Vals AI | – | 6.4%† |
| Code Migration v1.1 | Vals AI | 83.3%† | – |
| ProgramBench | Vals AI | 19.0%† | 0.0%† |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | Vals AI | 62.3%† | – |
| Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | Vals AI | 93.8%† | 20.2%† |
| SWE-Bench Pro (private) | Scale AI SEAL | – | 34.6%† |
| SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA | Scale AI SEAL | – | 8.2%† |
| SWE Atlas: Refactoring | Scale AI SEAL | – | 10.0%† |
| SWE Atlas: Test Writing | Scale AI SEAL | – | 30.3%† |
| ALE-Bench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 1367.2† |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 59.6% | – |
| Design Arena Website | Design Arena | – | 1193† |
| FrontierCode 1.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 56.2% | – |
| FrontierCode 2.0 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 48.8% | – |
| LiveCodeBench (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 90.8% |
| Agents & tools | |||
| Terminal-Bench | Terminal-Bench | – | 64.3%† |
| LiveBench Long Agentic | LiveBench | 82.9%† | – |
| LiveBench Browser | LiveBench | 86.9%† | – |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | Artificial Analysis | – | 38.6% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 80.4% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Vals AI | – | 53.9%† |
| MCP Atlas | Scale AI SEAL | – | 62.0%† |
| τ²-bench | τ²-bench | – | 83.5%† |
| τ³-bench Banking | τ²-bench | – | 27.3%† |
| GDPval-AA v2.1 | Artificial Analysis | 1831 | – |
| τ³-Banking (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 20.8% |
| APEX-Agents (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 27.7% |
| Finance Agent v2 | Vals AI | – | 42.5%† |
| Finance Agent v2.1 | Vals AI | 69.5%† | – |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1.1 | Vals AI | 5.0%† | – |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1 | Vals AI | – | 0.0%† |
| Legal Research Bench | Vals AI | 46.1%† | 18.3%† |
| Poker Agent | Vals AI | – | 1100.2%† |
| Tax Agent Bench | Vals AI | 32.1%† | 11.8%† |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Vals) | Vals AI | – | 51.7%† |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals) | Vals AI | 65.2%† | – |
| Terminal-Bench Science | Vals AI | 55.7%† | – |
| Arena Search | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1189† |
| BALROG | BALROG | – | 48.1%† |
| DeepResearch Bench | DeepResearch Bench | – | 47.9%† |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Andon Labs | – | 3634.7† |
| AutomationBench | Artificial Analysis | 76.4% | – |
| GDP.pdf (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 24.2% | – |
| Harvey LAB-AA v1.1 | Harvey | 7.2% | – |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 | Artificial Analysis | 1785 | – |
| Design Arena Agentic | Design Arena | – | 1076† |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 73.3% | – |
| BrowseComp | OpenAI | – | 16.9%† |
| Maths | |||
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 51.2%† |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 17.1%† |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 92.8%† |
| ProofBench | Vals AI | – | 15.0%† |
| AIME (Vals) | Vals AI | – | 95.6%† |
| MGSM | Vals AI | – | 93.3%† |
| AIME 2026 | MathArena | – | 96.7%† |
| HMMT February 2026 | MathArena | – | 89.4%† |
| MathArena Apex | MathArena | – | 15.6%† |
| Arena Maths | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1475† |
| Knowledge | |||
| SimpleQA Verified | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 66.8%† |
| LiveBench 2.0 Data Analysis | LiveBench | 81.5%† | – |
| LiveBench Research | LiveBench | 94.5%† | – |
| AA-Omniscience v1.1 | Artificial Analysis | 66.8 | – |
| MMLU-Pro | Vals AI | – | 88.6%† |
| LegalBench | Vals AI | – | 86.9%† |
| CorpFin | Vals AI | – | 66.4%† |
| TaxEval | Vals AI | – | 73.9%† |
| MedQA | Vals AI | – | 95.8%† |
| BioMysteryBench | Vals AI | 83.7%† | – |
| CaseLaw v2 | Vals AI | – | 55.8%† |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark | Vals AI | – | 26.0%† |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 | Vals AI | 77.4%† | – |
| MedCode | Vals AI | – | 55.9%† |
| MedScribe | Vals AI | – | 69.9%† |
| GDP.pdf | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 10.0%† |
| AA-Omniscience v1.1: accuracy | Artificial Analysis | 79.1% | – |
| AA-Omniscience v1.1: non-hallucination | Artificial Analysis | 40.7% | – |
| Global-MMLU-Lite (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 92.8%† |
| HealthBench Professional (AA) | OpenAI | 67.7% | – |
| Instruction following | |||
| IFBench | Artificial Analysis | – | 78.0% |
| Arena Instruction Following | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1457† |
| Human preference | |||
| Arena Text | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1473† |
| Arena Creative Writing | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1456† |
| Arena Multi-turn | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1482† |
| Arena Longer Queries | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1476† |
| Multimodal | |||
| Arena Vision | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1285† |
| LiveBench Design | LiveBench | 85.1%† | – |
| MMMU-Pro | Artificial Analysis | – | 79.9% |
| MMMU-Pro (Vals) | Vals AI | – | 87.6%† |
| MortgageTax | Vals AI | – | 68.7%† |
| GeoBench | GeoBench | – | 88.0%† |
| VPCT | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 72.6%† |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 0.0%† |
| AA-3D | Artificial Analysis | 1271 | – |
| Long context | |||
| AA-LCR v1.1 | Artificial Analysis | 83.3% | 78.0% |
| Arena Document | Arena (LMArena) | – | 1440† |
| Composite | |||
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | – | 152.3† |
| LiveBench 2.0 | LiveBench | 84.9%† | – |
| AA Intelligence Index v5.0 | Artificial Analysis | 64.6 | – |
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | Artificial Analysis | – | 26.3 |
| AA Progress Index v1 | Artificial Analysis | – | 290.1 |
| Vals Index | Vals AI | 71.3† | – |
| Vals Finance Index | Vals AI | 63.6%† | – |
| Vals Science Index | Vals AI | 63.7%† | – |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Vals AI | – | 52.2%† |
Data as of 2026-11-09. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
What changed
- Gemini 3 Flash (thinking): BenchLeader Index 60.1 → 59.0.
- Gemini 3 Flash (thinking): 1 new result (AA Progress Index v1).
- Gemini 3 Flash (thinking): 2 new results (AA-Omniscience v1.1: accuracy, AA-Omniscience v1.1: non-hallucination).
- Gemini 3 Flash (thinking): 2 new results (MLCR, Global-MMLU-Lite (AA)).
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Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 3 Flash: questions
- Is Claude Fable 5.2 better than Gemini 3 Flash?
- Claude Fable 5.2 (max) leads on quality: 69.4 vs 58.9. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Claude Fable 5.2 (max) is ahead overall as of 9 Nov 2026, but check the category scores for your use.
- Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 3 Flash: which is cheaper, and will that change?
- Gemini 3 Flash is cheaper today: $1.13 against $16.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token. No price change has been announced for either.
- Which is faster, Claude Fable 5.2 or Gemini 3 Flash?
- Gemini 3 Flash streams ~2× faster (192 vs 72 output tokens per second, Artificial Analysis 7-day median).
- Which is better for long documents?
- Claude Fable 5.2 scores higher on long-context benchmarks (66 vs 64). Both take about 1M tokens: Claude Fable 5.2 1,000,000, Gemini 3 Flash 1,048,576.
- Which has lower latency?
- Claude Fable 5.2 answers first: 3.0 s against 4.8 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.
More questions (2)
- Do independent benchmarks agree on Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 3 Flash?
- Across the 3 benchmarks both have, Claude Fable 5.2 leads 3, Gemini 3 Flash leads 0. Every overall index that rates both puts Claude Fable 5.2 ahead.
- When was Claude Fable 5.2 released?
- Claude Fable 5.2 was released on 9 Nov 2026.