Coding work
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1 leads on the public coding lane, 80 to 67, with Supported evidence for both models, although the 90% intervals overlap.
Updated September 29, 2026. Rank says Claude Fable 5.1 is ahead. Price, access, and your workload can each overturn that. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty.
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Claude Fable 5.1 has the higher public score estimate, 82.5 versus 66.86, but the 90% score intervals overlap. Treat that as a lead, not a settled winner. 3 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1 leads on the public coding lane, 80 to 67, with Supported evidence for both models, although the 90% intervals overlap.
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
GPT-6.1 Sol
GPT-6.1 Sol has the larger documented context window.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
GPT-6.1 Sol
GPT-6.1 Sol has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
GPT-6.1 Sol
GPT-6.1 Sol has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
GPT-6.1 Sol
GPT-6.1 Sol has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Not enough matched evidence
GPT-6.1 Sol is not ranked on the public lane for agentic, so no winner is named for agentic.
Choose a job from the LLM Selector's task catalog to see the category row it rests on, under the same basis rules as the table below. A directional row stays directional; choosing a job never creates a winner.
The same task catalog as the LLM Selector. Each job names the evidence surface it rests on; nothing here adds a new score.
Like-for-like · BenchAlign v5.7
Claude Fable 5.1 leads the like-for-like coding row, although the 90% intervals overlap.
Coding scores combine specific tasks and setups. Match the editor, harness, and effort to your workflow.
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
1 category rests on Estimated evidence or different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.
AutomationBenchAgentic
Normalized gap 4.7Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign v5.7 lane for agentic, coding, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.
| Category | Claude Fable 5.1 | GPT-6.1 Sol | Basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 80.0Supported · #3/143 | 67.0Supported · #8/143 | Like-for-likeBenchAlign v5.7 lane · 10 vs 1 public rows | Claude Fable 5.1 leads · intervals overlap |
| Knowledge | 85.4Supported · #3/169 | 71.3Estimated · #10/169 | Directional onlyBenchAlign v5.7 lane · 4 vs 5 public rows | Directional only |
| Agentic | 78.9Supported · #2/117 | Not ranked | Not comparableBenchAlign v5.7 lane · 10 vs 3 public rows | Not comparable |
| Reasoning | 81.4#3/27 | 79.4Unranked · 2 rankable rows | Not comparableProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | Not ranked | 83.9Unranked · 1 rankable row | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Math | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign v5.7) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the provisional lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
GPT-6.1 Sol has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
GPT-6.1 Sol has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
GPT-6.1 Sol has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
Claude Fable 5.1
GPT-6.1 Sol
Claude Fable 5.1
claude-fable-5-1
Anthropic Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 launchGPT-6.1 Sol
gpt-6.1-sol
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol model documentationA missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
Claude Fable 5.1
$0.25 per 1M cached input tokens
Anthropic Fable 5.1 launchGPT-6.1 Sol
$0.1 per 1M cached input tokens
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol model documentationClaude Fable 5.1
Not sourced
GPT-6.1 Sol
text, image
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol model documentationClaude Fable 5.1
Not sourced
GPT-6.1 Sol
Claude Fable 5.1
Generally Available · Claude API, Claude products, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
Anthropic Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 launchGPT-6.1 Sol
Generally Available · OpenAI Responses API, OpenAI Chat Completions API
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol model documentationClaude Fable 5.1
Reasoning
GPT-6.1 Sol
Reasoning
Claude Fable 5.1
Proprietary
GPT-6.1 Sol
Proprietary
Claude Fable 5.1
Proprietary
GPT-6.1 Sol
Proprietary
Claude Fable 5.1
2026-09-01
GPT-6.1 Sol
2026-09-29
Claude Fable 5.1 has the higher public score estimate, 82.5 versus 66.86, but the 90% score intervals overlap. The higher estimate is not a decisive winner because the uncertainty ranges overlap.
Claude Fable 5.1 leads the public coding lane, 80 to 67, with Supported evidence for both models, although the 90% intervals overlap.
GPT-6.1 Sol is not ranked on the public lane for agentic tasks, so no winner is named for agentic tasks.
For the stated presets, chat costs $0.035 on Claude Fable 5.1 and $0.007 on GPT-6.1 Sol; repository review costs $0.65 and $0.13; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $0.75 and $0.16. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
GPT-6.1 Sol has the larger documented context window: 1.05M, compared with 1M.
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Terminal-Bench 4.0
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1
GPT-6.1 Sol leads this result
OSWorld 2.0
Not directly comparable
AutomationBench
GPT-6.1 Sol leads this result
Toolathlon-Verified
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon Verified Pass@3
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon Verified Pass³
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon Verified avg. turns
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
Not directly comparable
ApprenticeBench
Not directly comparable
ExploitGym
Not directly comparable
Bug Hunt Bench
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
Not directly comparable
SWE Multilingual
Not directly comparable
SWE Multimodal
Not directly comparable
DeepSWE
GPT-6.1 Sol leads this result
FrontierSWE v2
Not directly comparable
ProgramBench
Not directly comparable
cursorBench32
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench (Vals)
Not directly comparable
cursorBench40
Not directly comparable
HLE
Not directly comparable
HLE w/o tools
Not directly comparable
GPQA Diamond (Vals)
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Pro (Vals)
Not directly comparable
HealthBench (raw)
Not directly comparable
HealthBench (length-adjusted)
Not directly comparable
HealthBench Professional
Not directly comparable
HealthBench Professional (raw)
Not directly comparable
HealthBench Hard
Not directly comparable
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Last updated September 29, 2026