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Qwen3.5 397B A17B vs Claude Fable 5

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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
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
#5 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Claude Fable 5
#12 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
22.3x better value than Claude Fable 5
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
55.3 pts/$
$1.42/M
Claude Fable 5
2.5 pts/$
$30.00/M
Vendor risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Qwen3.5 397B A17BClaude Fable 5
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +33.0
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?"
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
19.9
Claude Fable 5
52.8
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +28.3
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.
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
48.2
Claude Fable 5
76.5
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Fable 5 leads by +26.2
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
33.7
Claude Fable 5
59.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Fable 5 leads by +259.4
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
1394.5
Claude Fable 5
1653.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Fable 5 leads by +63.9
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
1443.7
Claude Fable 5
1507.6
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkQwen3.5 397B A17BClaude Fable 5
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?"
19.952.8
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.
48.276.5
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
33.759.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1394.51653.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1443.71507.6
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3.5 397B A17B$0.39$2.45256K tokens (~128 books)$9.01
Anthropic logoClaude Fable 5$10.00$50.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$200.00