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Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 4.8

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Winner summary

Claude Fable 5 wins 10 of 18 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena · math · coding.

Category leads
agentic·Gemini 3.5 Flasharena·Claude Fable 5knowledge·Gemini 3.5 Flashmath·Claude Fable 5reasoning·Gemini 3.5 Flashcoding·Claude Fable 5speed·Claude Fable 5
Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3.5 Flash
#44 by perf·no signal
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Claude Fable 5
#12 by perf·no signal
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Claude Opus 4.8
#47 by perf·no signal
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Best value
2.9x better value than Claude Opus 4.8
Gemini 3.5 Flash
11.9 pts/$
$5.25/M
Claude Fable 5
2.5 pts/$
$30.00/M
Claude Opus 4.8
4.1 pts/$
$15.00/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemini 3.5 FlashClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 4.8
APEX-Agents
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads by +4.6
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
49.6
Claude Fable 5
45.0
Claude Opus 4.8
42.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Fable 5 leads by +111.7
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1505.5
Claude Fable 5
1653.9
Claude Opus 4.8
1542.3
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Fable 5 leads by +29.7
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1476.3
Claude Fable 5
1507.6
Claude Opus 4.8
1477.8
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads by +9.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
50.0
Claude Fable 5
41.0
Claude Opus 4.8
34.0
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
Claude Fable 5 leads by +31.7
Gemini 3.5 Flash
26.8
Claude Fable 5
87.8
Claude Opus 4.8
56.1
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
Claude Fable 5 leads by +7.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
62.8
Claude Fable 5
87.0
Claude Opus 4.8
80.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Claude Fable 5 leads by +1.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
95.5
Claude Fable 5
99.7
Claude Opus 4.8
98.3
SimpleBench
Claude Fable 5 leads by +6.2
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
72.0
Claude Fable 5
78.3
Claude Opus 4.8
57.8
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads by +0.1
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
68.4
Claude Fable 5
68.3
Claude Opus 4.8
39.5
WeirdML
Claude Fable 5 leads by +5.0
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
62.6
Claude Fable 5
87.8
Claude Opus 4.8
82.9
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +15.4
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?"
Gemini 3.5 Flash
37.5
Claude Fable 5
52.8
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +6.3
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.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
70.1
Claude Fable 5
76.5
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +9.7
Gemini 3.5 Flash
50.2
Claude Fable 5
59.9
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
92.5
Claude Opus 4.8
92.5
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.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
72.1
Claude Opus 4.8
72.1
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Claude Opus 4.8 leads by +8.3
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
39.0
Claude Opus 4.8
47.2
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Claude Opus 4.8 leads by +16.7
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
14.6
Claude Opus 4.8
31.3
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads by +2.4
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
90.4
Claude Opus 4.8
88.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashClaude Fable 5Claude Opus 4.8
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
49.645.042.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1505.51653.91542.3
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1476.31507.61477.8
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
50.041.034.0
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
26.887.856.1
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
62.887.080.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
95.599.798.3
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
72.078.357.8
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
68.468.339.5
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
62.687.882.9
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?"
37.552.8
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.
70.176.5
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
50.259.9
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
92.592.5
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.
72.172.1
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
39.047.2
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
14.631.3
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
90.488.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3.5 Flash$1.50$9.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$33.75
Anthropic logoClaude Fable 5$10.00$50.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$200.00
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.8$5.00$25.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$100.00