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Claude Fable 5 vs DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale

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Winner summary

Claude Fable 5 wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·Claude Fable 5
Hype vs Reality
Claude Fable 5
#12 by perf·no signal
QUIET
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
#6 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
39.4x better value than Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5
2.5 pts/$
$30.00/M
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
97.8 pts/$
$0.80/M
Vendor risk
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Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
Claude Fable 5DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +52.8
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
Claude Fable 5
52.8
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
0.0
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +38.6
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
Claude Fable 5
76.5
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
37.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +30.4
Claude Fable 5
59.9
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
29.4
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
52.80.0
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
76.537.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
59.929.4
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Fable 5$10.00$50.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$200.00
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V3.2 Speciale$0.40$1.20164K tokens (~82 books)$6.00