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Claude Fable 5 vs GLM 5.2

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Winner summary

Claude Fable 5 wins 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · arena.

Category leads
speed·Claude Fable 5arena·Claude Fable 5
Hype vs Reality
Claude Fable 5
#12 by perf·no signal
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GLM 5.2
#11 by perf·no signal
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Best value
12.3x better value than Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5
2.5 pts/$
$30.00/M
GLM 5.2
30.5 pts/$
$2.50/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Head to head
Claude Fable 5GLM 5.2
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +9.8
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
GLM 5.2
43.1
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +7.7
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
GLM 5.2
68.8
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +8.8
Claude Fable 5
59.9
GLM 5.2
51.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Fable 5 leads by +60.7
Claude Fable 5
1653.9
GLM 5.2
1593.3
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Fable 5 leads by +36.6
Claude Fable 5
1507.6
GLM 5.2
1471.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GLM 5.2
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?"
52.843.1
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.
76.568.8
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
59.951.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1653.91593.3
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1507.61471.0
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
z-ai logoGLM 5.2$1.00$4.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$17.50