Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3 7
Verdict
- Claude Fable 5 leads on quality: 70.5 vs 61.3.
- Claude Fable 5 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, knowledge, long context, multimodal, reasoning.
- Qwen3 7 (max) is stronger in instruction following, maths.
- Qwen3 7 (max) is 5.3× cheaper ($3.75 vs $20.00 per 1M blended).
- Qwen3 7 (max) streams 2.7× faster (169 vs 63 tokens per second).
| Metric | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3 7 (max) |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 70.5 | 61.3 |
| Agents & tools score | 74.4 | 56.0 |
| Coding score | 70.5 | 61.4 |
| Composite score | 91.8 | 56.4 |
| Human preference score | 71.6 | 57.2 |
| Instruction following score | 62.9 | 77.6 |
| Knowledge score | 71.4 | 63.6 |
| Long context score | 67.8 | 66.0 |
| Multimodal score | 69.7 | – |
| Reasoning score | 75.9 | 66.8 |
| Maths score | – | 57.4 |
| Blended price $/M | $20.00 | $3.75 |
| Output speed | 63 tok/s | 169 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 102.3 s | 16.5 s |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| GPQA Diamond | – | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | – | 64.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | – | 34.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME | – | 95.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch) | – | 77.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | – | 55.8% |
| SimpleBench | – | 70.4% |
| SciCode | – | 48.8% |
| Remote Labor Index | 16.1% | – |
| APEX-Agents | 45.0% | – |
| FrontierCode | 53.5% | – |
| ProofBench | – | 26.0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 163.4 | 153.7 |
| LMArena Text | 1507 | 1474 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1533 | 1495 |
| LMArena Coding | 1551 | 1525 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1628 | 1517 |
| LMArena Vision | 1330 | – |
| LMArena Agent | – | -3.1 |
| LiveBench | – | 73.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | – | 83.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | – | 74.2% |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | – | 43.6% |
| LiveBench Mathematics | – | 85.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | – | 71.8% |
| LiveBench Language | – | 79.7% |
| AA Intelligence Index | 49.7 | 29.9 |
| IFBench | 63.5% | 80.5% |
| AA-LCR | 82.3% | 79.0% |
| AA-Omniscience | 43.3 | 13.5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 62.9% | 50.8% |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 92.6% | 92.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 55.5% | 40.5% |
| SciCode (AA) | 61.0% | 49.5% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 98.5% | 94.7% |
| LiveCodeBench | 89.8% | 87.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 91.5% | 89.3% |
| IOI | 72.3% | 46.8% |
| LegalBench | 88.6% | 84.9% |
| CorpFin | 71.8% | 63.7% |
| TaxEval | 76.9% | 75.3% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.5% | 61.0% |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 95.0% | 68.8% |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | 90.2% |
| Vals Index | 66.0 | 44.8 |
| MCP Atlas | 83.3% | – |
| PRBench Finance | 53.9% | – |
| PRBench Legal | 52.6% | – |
| HiL-Bench | 56.3% | – |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1340 | 1110 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8% | – |
Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3 7: questions
- Is Claude Fable 5 better than Qwen3 7?
- Claude Fable 5 leads on quality: 70.5 vs 61.3. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Claude Fable 5 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is Claude Fable 5 better than Qwen3 7 for coding?
- Claude Fable 5 scores higher in coding (71 vs 61 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is Claude Fable 5 better than Qwen3 7 for agentic tasks?
- Claude Fable 5 scores higher in agentic tasks (74 vs 56 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3 7?
- Qwen3 7 is cheaper: $3.75 against $20.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which is faster, Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3 7?
- Qwen3 7 streams faster: 169 against 63 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Both accept 1M tokens of context.