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Claude Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 Carbon vs GPT-6 Astra

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Winner summary

Claude Fable 5.2 wins 14 of 19 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
GPT-6 Astra
#9 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
4.0x better value than Claude Fable 5.2
Claude Fable 5.2
3.5 pts/$
$24.00/M
Gemini 4 Carbon
14.3 pts/$
$6.00/M
GPT-6 Astra
2.5 pts/$
$30.00/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$3.61T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Fable 5.2Gemini 4 CarbonGPT-6 Astra
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
GPT-6 Astra
64.7
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
GPT-6 Astra
98.5
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-6 Astra leads by +0.8
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
GPT-6 Astra
95.0
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
GPT-6 Astra
74.8
Ebr Bench
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +2.9
Claude Fable 5.2
90.5
Gemini 4 Carbon
87.6
GPT-6 Astra
76.2
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +2.4
Claude Fable 5.2
100.0
Gemini 4 Carbon
95.1
GPT-6 Astra
97.6
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +1.4
Claude Fable 5.2
100.0
Gemini 4 Carbon
95.3
GPT-6 Astra
98.6
Frontierswe
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +4.4
Claude Fable 5.2
69.9
Gemini 4 Carbon
61.2
GPT-6 Astra
65.5
Furniture Assembly
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +14.3
Claude Fable 5.2
85.7
Gemini 4 Carbon
67.9
GPT-6 Astra
71.4
GPQA diamond
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +1.0
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
GPT-6 Astra
98.3
Mystery Game Puzzles
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +6.6
Claude Fable 5.2
89.0
Gemini 4 Carbon
70.3
GPT-6 Astra
82.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
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
GPT-6 Astra
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
GPT-6 Astra
83.8
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
GPT-6 Astra
75.6
Dtbench
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +3.1
Claude Fable 5.2
98.7
GPT-6 Astra
95.5
Lmca
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +7.3
Claude Fable 5.2
83.1
GPT-6 Astra
75.7
Proofbench
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +1.0
Claude Fable 5.2
100.0
GPT-6 Astra
99.0
Remote Labor Index
Claude Fable 5.2 leads by +20.5
Claude Fable 5.2
41.3
GPT-6 Astra
20.8
SpireClimb
GPT-6 Astra leads by +14.4
Claude Fable 5.2
19.6
GPT-6 Astra
34.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5.2Gemini 4 CarbonGPT-6 Astra
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
80.184.264.7
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
98.598.598.5
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.
93.894.295.0
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
77.976.874.8
Ebr Bench
90.587.676.2
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
100.095.197.6
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
100.095.398.6
Frontierswe
69.961.265.5
Furniture Assembly
85.767.971.4
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
95.799.398.3
Mystery Game Puzzles
89.070.382.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
99.7100.0100.0
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
93.991.183.8
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
94.077.775.6
Dtbench
98.7n/a95.5
Lmca
83.1n/a75.7
Proofbench
100.0n/a99.0
Remote Labor Index
41.3n/a20.8
SpireClimb
19.6n/a34.0
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
OpenAI logoGPT-6 Astra$10.00$50.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$200.00