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The complete Claude Fable 5 review. Mythos-class for everyone. 80.3% Pro, 88.0% Terminal-Bench, 93.9% Verified. Stripe's 50M-line migration in a day. Karpathy: "major-version-bump-deserving." Simon Willison: "a beast." Safety classifiers, $10/$50 pricing, and why this is the biggest step toward AGI yet.
Claude Fable 5 ($50/1M) vs GPT-5.5 ($30/1M). Fable 5 leads all 8 coding benchmarks (+11.8 avg). GPT-5.5 counters with lower price and Batch/Flex at $15. 5× better Pro value from Fable 5. The definitive head-to-head comparison.
Claude Fable 5 ($50/1M) vs GPT-5.5 Pro ($180/1M). Fable 5 leads all 8 coding benchmarks by +11.8 pts avg. GPT-5.5 Pro fights back on BrowseComp (90.1%) and FrontierMath (39.6%) via parallel compute — but has no published Pro coding scores. Updated with separate GPT-5.5 Pro benchmarks.
DeepSeek V4 Flash ($0.28/1M, MIT, 284B) vs Qwen 3.6 Flash ($0.90/1M, Apache 2.0, 35B/3B). V4 leads every coding benchmark (Pro +3.1, HLE +13.4, LiveCodeBench +11.2). Qwen counters with multimodal (text+image+video), speed (90-172 tok/s), and tiny 3B active params. Chinese Flash showdown.
DeepSeek V4 Flash ($0.28/1M, MIT) vs Gemini 3 Flash ($3.00/1M). Flash leads Pro (+3.0), GPQA (+6.9), MCP Atlas (+7.0). Gemini leads OSWorld (65.1%), multimodal input, and Toolathlon. 10.7× price gap. Two Flash-tier models, zero overlap.
DeepSeek V4 Flash ($0.28/1M, MIT) vs GPT-5.4 Mini ($4.50/1M). Mini leads SWE-bench Pro (+1.8) & Terminal-Bench (+3.1). Flash leads LiveCodeBench (91.6%), HLE (+3.6), and is 16× cheaper. The budget coding tier has never been more competitive.
Interactive Terminal-Bench 2.1 leaderboard updated with Claude Opus 5 at 89.1%. 40+ models ranked by CLI coding ability. Updated July 25, 2026.
The two best open-weight coding models in the world. MiniMax M3: 59.0% SWE-bench Pro (#1 open-weight), 1M context, native video, $1.20/1M. Kimi K2.6: 58.6% Pro, Agent Swarm (300 sub-agents, 4,000 steps), HLE leader (54%), $4.00/1M. Just 0.4 points apart on Pro but 3.3× price gap. Full benchmark comparison.
Qwen 3.7 Max beats GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro (60.6% vs 58.6%) — the hardest coding benchmark. Costs 4x less. But GPT dominates Terminal-Bench, DeepSWE, and ARC-AGI-2. Full comparison.
Claude Opus 4.8 leads SWE-bench Pro by 8.6 points (69.2% vs 60.6%) — but Qwen 3.7 Max fights back on Terminal-Bench (69.7% vs 65.4%) and LiveCodeBench (91.6% vs 88.8%). With native Anthropic API compatibility and 3.33× lower cost, Qwen is the first model you can drop into Claude Code as a replacement.
Qwen 3.7 Max (60.6% SWE-bench Pro — highest proprietary score) vs MiniMax M3 (59.0%, $1.20/1M, open-weight + video). Just 1.6 points apart on Pro but 6.25× price gap. Alibaba's agent powerhouse vs the multimodal challenger.
Gemini 3.5 Flash ($9/1M, 76.2% Terminal-Bench, 4× faster) vs DeepSeek V4 Pro ($0.87/1M, 93.5% LiveCodeBench). 10× price gap. Flash wins on agent speed — DeepSeek on algorithms and value. Which fits your workflow?