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Claude Fable 5.1 vs gpt-oss-120b (free)

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Claude Fable 5.1 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·Claude Fable 5.1
Hype vs Reality
Claude Fable 5.1
#24 by perf·#11 by attention
UNDERRATED
gpt-oss-120b (free)
#28 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Claude Fable 5.1
2.3 pts/$
$30.00/M
gpt-oss-120b (free)
n/a
$0.00/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Fable 5.1gpt-oss-120b (free)
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Fable 5.1 leads by +29.5
Claude Fable 5.1
53.4
gpt-oss-120b (free)
23.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.1gpt-oss-120b (free)
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
53.423.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Fable 5.1$10.00$50.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$200.00
OpenAI logogpt-oss-120b (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)—