Claude Fable 5 vs Kimi K3
Full profiles: Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) and Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI): every benchmark, price and rank.
Updated · Data from 11 sources
As of 24 Oct 2026, Claude Fable 5 (max) leads on quality (69.3 vs 64.7 on the BenchLeader Index), but Kimi K3 (max) costs 3.3× less, so it is the better buy unless you need the extra quality. Pick Claude Fable 5 for knowledge (81 vs 63); pick Kimi K3 for long context (70 vs 66).
Claude Fable 5 benchmarks max Anthropic
Kimi K3 benchmarks max Moonshot AIOpen in the comparison toolWhich 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | Claude Fable 5 | 74 vs 65 category score; SciCode 61.0% vs 59.5% | High |
| Agents & tool use | Claude Fable 5 | 65 vs 59 category score; τ³-Banking (AA) 38.1% vs 46.0% | Medium |
| Maths | Claude Fable 5 | 72 vs 63 category score; FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 87.0% vs 72.2% | High |
| Reasoning | Claude Fable 5 | 74 vs 66 category score; SimpleBench 81.9% vs 60.7% | Medium |
| Knowledge | Claude Fable 5 | 81 vs 63 category score; AA-Omniscience 43.3 vs 19.7 | High |
| Long documents | Kimi K3 | 70 vs 66 category score; AA-LCR 88.7% vs 82.3% | Medium |
| Chat quality (human preference) | – | Only Kimi K3 has an Arena rating (68 category score) | Not comparable |
| Lowest cost | Kimi K3 | $6.00 vs $20.00 per 1M blended; agentic coding session $0.240 vs $0.800 | – |
| Fastest first answer | Either | 59.8 s (Claude Fable 5 (max)) vs 55.4 s (Kimi K3 (max)) 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 (max) leads on quality: 69.3 vs 64.7.
- Claude Fable 5 (max) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, instruction following, knowledge, maths, reasoning.
- Kimi K3 (max) is stronger in long context, human preference, multimodal.
- Kimi K3 (max) is 3.3× cheaper ($6.00 vs $20.00 per 1M blended).
- Claude Fable 5 (max) streams 1.8× faster (70 vs 39 tokens per second).
At a glance
| Spec | Claude Fable 5 | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Anthropic | Moonshot AI |
| Released | 9 Jun 2026 | 16 Jul 2026 |
| Context window (tokens) | 1,000,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Compared at | Claude Fable 5 (max) | Kimi K3 (max) |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| Price in / out / cached input per 1M | $10.00 / $50.00 / $1.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 / $0.300 |
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 (max) | Kimi K3 (max) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 73.8 | 66.4 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Coding | 73.8 | 64.6 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Agents & tools | 65.0 | 58.9 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Maths | 72.4 | 63.4 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Knowledge | 81.0 | 62.8 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Instruction following | 63.1 | – | not comparable |
| Human preference | – | 68.1 | not comparable |
| Multimodal | – | 63.6 | not comparable |
| Long context | 66.3 | 69.6 | Kimi K3 |
| Composite | 85.0 | 78.3 | Claude Fable 5 |
Where sources disagree
Across the 35 benchmarks both have, Claude Fable 5 leads 27, Kimi K3 leads 8. Every overall index that rates both puts Claude Fable 5 ahead.
| Overall index | Claude Fable 5 (max) | Kimi K3 (max) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 69.3 | 64.7 | Claude Fable 5 |
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | 49.6 | 43.6 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Arena Text | 1503† | 1487 | Claude Fable 5 |
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.
| Measure | Claude Fable 5 (max) | Kimi K3 (max) |
|---|---|---|
| Blended price per 1M tokens | $20.00 | $6.00 |
| Input / output per 1M | $10.00 / $50.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 |
| Cached input per 1M | $1.00 | $0.300 |
| Price per task: chat reply | $0.019 | $0.0057 |
| Price per task: summarize a 30-page report | $0.150 | $0.045 |
| Price per task: code edit | $0.135 | $0.041 |
| Price per task: agentic coding session | $0.800 | $0.240 |
| Price per task: structured extraction | $0.030 | $0.0090 |
| Cost to run a full benchmark suite | $8.75 | $2.00 |
| Output speed | 70 tok/s | 39 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 59.8 s | 55.4 s |
| Time to a complete answer | 67.0 s | 68.4 s |
Per token is not per task: on Artificial Analysis' full suite Claude Fable 5 (max) cost $8.75 and Kimi K3 (max) $2.00, because Claude Fable 5 (max) used about 1.3× as many tokens for the same work, which a per-token price hides.
Each model is compared at its best-ranked reasoning-effort setting. Claude Fable 5 (max) scores 69.3 and takes 60 s to its first answer token; Claude Fable 5 scores 67.1 in 4 s, Claude Fable 5 (high) scores 64.6 in 4 s. Kimi K3 (max) scores 64.7 and takes 55 s to its first answer token; Kimi K3 scores 59.1 in 1 s, Kimi K3 (low) scores 58.2 in 57 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
151 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 (max) | Kimi K3 (max) |
|---|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | BenchLeader | 69.3 | 64.7 |
| Agents & tools score | BenchLeader | 65.0 | 58.9 |
| Coding score | BenchLeader | 73.8 | 64.6 |
| Composite score | BenchLeader | 85.0 | 78.3 |
| Instruction following score | BenchLeader | 63.1 | – |
| Knowledge score | BenchLeader | 81.0 | 62.8 |
| Long context score | BenchLeader | 66.3 | 69.6 |
| Maths score | BenchLeader | 72.4 | 63.4 |
| Reasoning score | BenchLeader | 73.8 | 66.4 |
| Human preference score | BenchLeader | – | 68.1 |
| Multimodal score | BenchLeader | – | 63.6 |
| Blended price $/M | BenchLeader | $20.00 | $6.00 |
| Output speed | BenchLeader | 70 tok/s | 39 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | BenchLeader | 59.8 s | 55.4 s |
| Context window | BenchLeader | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Reasoning | |||
| GPQA Diamond | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 85.9% | 93.1% |
| SimpleBench | SimpleBench | 81.9% | 60.7% |
| Arena Hard Prompts | Arena (LMArena) | 1529† | 1516 |
| LiveBench 2.0 Reasoning | LiveBench | 89.7%† | 90.7%† |
| LiveBench 1.0 Reasoning | LiveBench | 89.7% | 90.7%† |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 92.6% | 93.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 55.5% | 46.9% |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Vals AI | 93.2%† | 92.9%† |
| EnigmaEval | Scale AI SEAL | 39.3%† | – |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8%† | – |
| ARC-AGI-1 | ARC Prize | 98.5% | 94.5% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | ARC Prize | 89.2% | 60.4% |
| CritPt | Artificial Analysis | 28.6% | 23.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 47.0% | 36.0% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 52.0% | 26.0% |
| LMCA | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 60.3% | 52.7% |
| DTBench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 98.4% | 91.2% |
| ForecastBench | ForecastBench | 66.0% | 64.6% |
| BTF-3 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 13.0%† | – |
| Coding | |||
| SciCode | SciCode | 61.0% | 59.5% |
| WeirdML | WeirdML | 91.9% | 82.6% |
| FrontierCode | Cognition | 53.5%† | 44.2%† |
| GSO-Bench | GSO-Bench | 78.4%† | – |
| Arena Coding | Arena (LMArena) | 1551† | 1539 |
| Arena WebDev | Arena (LMArena) | 1624† | 1655 |
Show all 151 benchmarks
| Metric | Publisher | Claude Fable 5 (max) | Kimi K3 (max) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | |||
| LiveBench 2.0 Coding | LiveBench | 98.3%† | 59.3%† |
| LiveBench 1.0 Coding | LiveBench | 86.0% | 81.5%† |
| LiveCodeBench | Vals AI | 89.8%† | 87.2% |
| IOI | Vals AI | – | 48.9% |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Vals AI | 95.0%† | 93.4%† |
| Code Migration | Vals AI | 55.1%† | 16.1% |
| Code Migration v1.1 | Vals AI | – | 28.6% |
| ProgramBench | Vals AI | 2.0%† | 2.0%† |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | Vals AI | – | 44.2% |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 | Vals AI | – | 18.2% |
| Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | Vals AI | 90.3%† | 85.0% |
| SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA | Scale AI SEAL | 39.0%† | – |
| SWE Atlas: Refactoring | Scale AI SEAL | 54.8%† | – |
| SWE Atlas: Test Writing | Scale AI SEAL | 55.6%† | – |
| MirrorCode | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 63.9%† | – |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 95.0%† | 93.0% |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 69.7% | 68.5% |
| ALE-Bench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2041.3† | 1524.5 |
| FrontierSWE | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 47.0% | 25.9% |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 42.4% | 12.6% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 84.6% | 85.0% |
| Startrise Frontend | Startrise | 73.8%† | 79.8%† |
| FrontierCode 1.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 43.6% |
| Agents & tools | |||
| Terminal-Bench | Terminal-Bench | 44.5% | – |
| Remote Labor Index | Scale AI / CAIS | 15.8%† | – |
| APEX-Agents | Mercor | 63.6%† | 47.8%† |
| Arena Agent | Arena (LMArena) | 8.3† | 1.8 |
| LiveBench Long Agentic | LiveBench | 53.2%† | 42.8%† |
| LiveBench Browser | LiveBench | 92.0%† | 16.0%† |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | LiveBench | 62.2% | 62.2%† |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | Artificial Analysis | 62.9% | – |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 98.5% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Vals AI | 80.5%† | 80.9%† |
| MCP Atlas | Scale AI SEAL | 83.3%† | 82.3% |
| HiL-Bench | Scale AI SEAL | 56.3%† | 42.7%† |
| τ³-bench Banking | τ²-bench | 39.7% | 37.1% |
| τ³-Banking (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 38.1% | 46.0% |
| ITBench SRE (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 47.7% |
| Analyst Agent (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 48.8% | 38.8% |
| APEX-Agents (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 41.3% |
| CyberBench | Vals AI | – | 75.2% |
| Finance Agent v2 | Vals AI | 56.3%† | 53.1% |
| Finance Agent v2.1 | Vals AI | – | 60.0% |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1.1 | Vals AI | – | 12.9% |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1 | Vals AI | 11.3%† | 12.9% |
| Legal Research Bench | Vals AI | 49.5%† | 46.1% |
| Tax Agent Bench | Vals AI | 38.3%† | 33.4% |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals) | Vals AI | 41.4%† | 17.2% |
| Terminal-Bench Science | Vals AI | 15.7%† | 1.4% |
| Time Horizon Index: KSP | Vals AI | – | 10.5% |
| Web Search Index | Vals AI | 46.9%† | – |
| Arena Search | Arena (LMArena) | 1229† | – |
| PostTrainBench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 41.8% | 32.0%† |
| GBAEval | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 74.5%† | 48.4%† |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Andon Labs | 4966.6 | 5165.0† |
| AutomationBench | Artificial Analysis | 54.1% | 58.3% |
| GDP.pdf (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 24.0% | 22.0% |
| Harvey LAB-AA v1.1 | Harvey | – | 5.3% |
| EnterpriseOps-Gym | Artificial Analysis | 51.1% | 45.3% |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 | Artificial Analysis | 1537 | 1499 |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 8.1% |
| CWE-Bench (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 53.3% |
| DeepSec-Bench (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 12.4% |
| CyberGym end-to-end (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 58.0% |
| Maths | |||
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 87.0% | 72.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 90.2% | 39.0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 99.7% | 97.2% |
| ProofBench | Vals AI | 95.0% | 87.0%† |
| LiveBench Mathematics | LiveBench | 96.0% | 84.4%† |
| AIME 2026 | MathArena | – | 96.7%† |
| HMMT February 2026 | MathArena | – | 97.0%† |
| MathArena Apex | MathArena | – | 65.6%† |
| Arena Maths | Arena (LMArena) | 1521† | 1499 |
| Knowledge | |||
| SimpleQA Verified | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 70.7%† | 50.6% |
| LiveBench 2.0 Data Analysis | LiveBench | 80.5%† | 78.7%† |
| LiveBench Research | LiveBench | 86.9%† | 79.0%† |
| LiveBench 1.0 Data Analysis | LiveBench | 80.5% | 78.7%† |
| AA-Omniscience | Artificial Analysis | 43.3 | 19.7 |
| MMLU-Pro | Vals AI | 91.5%† | 88.0% |
| LegalBench | Vals AI | 88.6%† | 86.2% |
| CorpFin | Vals AI | 71.8%† | 71.6%† |
| TaxEval | Vals AI | 76.9%† | 75.7%† |
| PRBench Finance | Scale AI SEAL | 53.9%† | – |
| PRBench Legal | Scale AI SEAL | 52.6%† | – |
| BioMysteryBench | Vals AI | – | 72.6% |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark | Vals AI | 73.7%† | 66.7% |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 | Vals AI | – | 71.3% |
| MedCode | Vals AI | 56.1%† | 49.4% |
| MedScribe | Vals AI | 88.5%† | 88.0% |
| Public Benefits Bench v1.1 | Vals AI | 70.4%† | 68.2% |
| EBR-bench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 39.5% | – |
| GDP.pdf | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 29.8% | 19.0% |
| AA-Omniscience: accuracy | Artificial Analysis | 65.3% | 47.6% |
| AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination | Artificial Analysis | 36.4% | 46.8% |
| Instruction following | |||
| LiveBench Language | LiveBench | 90.7% | 85.5%† |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | LiveBench | 75.8% | 71.4%† |
| IFBench | Artificial Analysis | 63.5% | – |
| Arena Instruction Following | Arena (LMArena) | 1508† | 1489 |
| Human preference | |||
| Arena Text | Arena (LMArena) | 1503† | 1487 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | EQ-Bench | 1340† | 1339† |
| Arena Creative Writing | Arena (LMArena) | 1501† | 1462 |
| Arena Multi-turn | Arena (LMArena) | 1517† | 1502 |
| Arena Longer Queries | Arena (LMArena) | 1522† | 1503 |
| Multimodal | |||
| Arena Vision | Arena (LMArena) | 1325† | – |
| LiveBench Design | LiveBench | 84.7%† | 77.2%† |
| MMMU-Pro | Artificial Analysis | – | 80.5% |
| MMMU-Pro (Vals) | Vals AI | 89.3%† | 88.2%† |
| MortgageTax | Vals AI | 68.9%† | 66.3%† |
| SAGE | Vals AI | 51.9%† | 52.8% |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 38.6%† | 29.5%† |
| AA-3D | Artificial Analysis | – | 981 |
| Long context | |||
| AA-LCR | Artificial Analysis | 82.3% | 88.7% |
| Arena Document | Arena (LMArena) | 1499† | – |
| MLCR | Artificial Analysis | 20.6% | 21.7% |
| Composite | |||
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 163.4† | 157.9† |
| LiveBench 2.0 | LiveBench | 83.6%† | 63.4%† |
| LiveBench 1.0 | LiveBench | 83.0% | 79.2%† |
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | Artificial Analysis | 49.6 | 43.6 |
| Vals Index | Vals AI | – | 53.0 |
| Vals Finance Index | Vals AI | – | 58.0% |
| Vals RSI Index | Vals AI | 24.3% | 20.9% |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Vals AI | 74.2%† | 73.4%† |
| Vals Router Index | Vals AI | – | 53.0%† |
| AA Cyber Index | Artificial Analysis | – | 41.3 |
| Safety & honesty | |||
| FORTRESS | Scale AI SEAL | – | 26.6% |
| Metadata | |||
| AA Openness Index | Artificial Analysis | – | 38.9 |
Data as of 2026-10-24. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
What changed
- Claude Fable 5 (max): 1 new result (Vals RSI Index).
- Kimi K3 (max): 7 new results (Code Migration v1.1, Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1, Finance Agent v2.1…).
- Claude Fable 5 (max): 1 score revision.
- Kimi K3 (max): 1 new result (Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA)); 1 score revision.
- Claude Fable 5 (max): 1 new result (ForecastBench).
- Kimi K3 (max): 3 score revisions.
- Kimi K3 (max): 1 score revision.
- Claude Fable 5 (max): 4 new results (GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Omniscience: accuracy, AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination…).
- Kimi K3 (max): 1 new result (τ³-bench Banking).
- Kimi K3 (max): 8 new results (LegalBench, Vals Index, Finance Agent v2…); 5 score revisions.
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Rankings: Best LLM overall · Best LLM for coding · Best LLM for agents · Best cheap LLMs
Claude Fable 5 vs Kimi K3: questions
- Is Claude Fable 5 better than Kimi K3?
- Claude Fable 5 (max) leads on quality: 69.3 vs 64.7. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Claude Fable 5 (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-10-24, but check the category scores for your use.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Kimi K3, and will that change?
- Kimi K3 is cheaper today: $6.00 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 better than Kimi K3 for coding?
- Claude Fable 5 scores higher in coding (74 vs 65 on the category index, where 50 is average). On SciCode, the top shared coding benchmark, it is 61.0% for Claude Fable 5 against 59.5% for Kimi K3.
- Is Claude Fable 5 better than Kimi K3 for agents and tool use?
- Claude Fable 5 scores higher in agentic tasks (65 vs 59 on the category index, where 50 is average). On τ³-Banking (AA), the top shared agents & tools benchmark, it is 38.1% for Claude Fable 5 against 46.0% for Kimi K3.
- Which is better for long documents?
- Kimi K3 scores higher on long-context benchmarks (70 vs 66). Both take about 1M tokens: Claude Fable 5 1,000,000, Kimi K3 1,048,576.
- Which has lower latency?
- Kimi K3 (max) answers first: 55.4 s against 59.8 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.
- Which is faster, Claude Fable 5 or Kimi K3?
- Claude Fable 5 streams faster: 70 against 39 output tokens per second.
- Do independent benchmarks agree on Claude Fable 5 vs Kimi K3?
- Across the 35 benchmarks both have, Claude Fable 5 leads 27, Kimi K3 leads 8. Every overall index that rates both puts Claude Fable 5 ahead.
- When was Kimi K3 released?
- Kimi K3 was released on 16 Jul 2026.