Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Head to head on 24 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.
Benchmark scores
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| Claude Fable 5 Anthropic | 71.8% | 90.0% | 56.3% | 92.6% | 55.5% | 63.5% | 81.4% | 78.6% | 80.0% | 59.9% | 88.5% | 93.9% | 87.3% | 56.1% | 88.5% | 68.9% | 51.9% | 60.2% | 76.9% | 62.9% | 66.0% | 74.2% | 90.4% | 98.5% | - | 17.4% | 83.9% | 38.6% | 1340elo | 1933elo | 83 | 78.0% | 29.3% | - | 29.8% | 1932elo | 66.0% | - | - | 13.3% | - | - | - | 85.0% | 95.0% | - | 80.3% | 88.0% | - | 69.4% |
| Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba | 61.9% | 23.0% | 40.8% | 88.2% | 27.8% | 75.2% | 73.5% | 78.2% | 69.9% | 58.3% | 75.0% | 83.7% | 75.8% | 36.9% | 77.0% | 68.0% | 44.9% | 40.7% | 74.7% | 43.9% | 32.0% | 51.5% | 25.6% | 97.7% | 95.3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26.2% | - | - | - | 96.7 | 83.2% | - | 88.5 | 94.5 | 89.5 | - | - | 73.8 | - | - | 59.5 | 59.0% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude Fable 5 Anthropic | Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable widely released model, built for the most demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work. Shares its base model with the invitation-only Claude Mythos 5. | Qwen3.6Plus is an AI model from Alibaba. |
| Family | Claude | Qwen3.6 |
| Params | - | - |
| Open weights | closed | closed |
| License | - | proprietary |
| Released | 9 Jun 2026 | 2 Apr 2026 |
| Context | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Input $/1M | $10.00 | $0.50 |
| Output $/1M | $50.00 | $3.00 |
| Cache read $/1M | $1.000 | - |
| Cache write $/1M | $12.500 | $0.406 |
| Speed | 66 tok/s | 0 tok/s |
| Latency | 49.62 s | 0.00 s |
| Modalities | text, image, file | text, image, video |
| Providers | - | - |
| Publisher | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Reported scores | Finance Agent (v2)56.3% IFBench63.5% (AA) Swebenchpro80.3% LiveBench - Math93.9% (LiveBench) LiveBench - Coding78.6% (LiveBench) | GPQA Diamond88.2% (AA) Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)27.8% (AA) IFBench75.2% (AA) SciCode40.7% (AA) τ²-bench (Tau²-bench)97.7% (AA) |
FAQ
- Is Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3.6 Plus better?
- Across the 24 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Claude Fable 5 leads on 23 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
- How do Claude Fable 5 and Qwen3.6 Plus compare on GPQA Diamond?
- Claude Fable 5 scores 92.6% and Qwen3.6 Plus scores 88.2% on GPQA Diamond.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3.6 Plus?
- Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper at $3.00 per million output tokens against $50.00 for Claude Fable 5 - about 16.7x.
- When were Claude Fable 5 and Qwen3.6 Plus released?
- Claude Fable 5 was released 9 Jun 2026 by Anthropic. Qwen3.6 Plus was released 2 Apr 2026 by Alibaba.
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