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Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 Carbon

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Winner summary

Claude Fable 5.2 wins 10 of 14 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · knowledge · general.

Category leads
agentic·Gemini 4 Carbonreasoning·Claude Fable 5.2knowledge·Claude Fable 5.2general·Claude Fable 5.2math·Claude Fable 5.2coding·Claude Fable 5.2
Hype vs Reality
Claude Fable 5.2
#2 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
Gemini 4 Carbon
#1 by perf·#8 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
4.0x better value than Claude Fable 5.2
Claude Fable 5.2
3.5 pts/$
$24.00/M
Gemini 4 Carbon
14.3 pts/$
$6.00/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$3.61T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Claude Fable 5.2Gemini 4 Carbon
APEX-Agents
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +4.1
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Claude Fable 5.2
80.1
Gemini 4 Carbon
84.2
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Claude Fable 5.2
98.5
Gemini 4 Carbon
98.5
ARC-AGI-2
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +0.4
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Claude Fable 5.2
93.8
Gemini 4 Carbon
94.2
Chess Puzzles
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +1.1
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Claude Fable 5.2
77.9
Gemini 4 Carbon
76.8
Ebr Bench
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +2.9
Claude Fable 5.2
90.5
Gemini 4 Carbon
87.6
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +4.9
Claude Fable 5.2
100.0
Gemini 4 Carbon
95.1
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +4.7
Claude Fable 5.2
100.0
Gemini 4 Carbon
95.3
Frontierswe
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +8.7
Claude Fable 5.2
69.9
Gemini 4 Carbon
61.2
Furniture Assembly
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +17.8
Claude Fable 5.2
85.7
Gemini 4 Carbon
67.9
GPQA diamond
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +3.7
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Fable 5.2
95.7
Gemini 4 Carbon
99.3
Mystery Game Puzzles
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +18.7
Claude Fable 5.2
89.0
Gemini 4 Carbon
70.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +0.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Fable 5.2
99.7
Gemini 4 Carbon
100.0
SimpleBench
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +2.8
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude Fable 5.2
93.9
Gemini 4 Carbon
91.1
SimpleQA Verified
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +16.3
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Claude Fable 5.2
94.0
Gemini 4 Carbon
77.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.2Gemini 4 Carbon
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
80.184.2
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
98.598.5
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
93.894.2
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
77.976.8
Ebr Bench
90.587.6
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
100.095.1
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
100.095.3
Frontierswe
69.961.2
Furniture Assembly
85.767.9
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
95.799.3
Mystery Game Puzzles
89.070.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
99.7100.0
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
93.991.1
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
94.077.7
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Fable 5.2$8.00$40.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$160.00
Google DeepMind logoGemini 4 Carbon$2.00$10.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$40.00