# Claude Fable 5 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Fable 5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-fable-vs-gemini-3-6-flash
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Fable 5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 3.6 Flash only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Fable 5 leads overall 80.91 to 70.11.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 74.8 for Claude Fable 5 and 50.7 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is cursorBench32 in Coding, with scores of 70.5% and 53.5%.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Fable 5 | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Google |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M+ | 1M |
| Overall Score | 80.91 | 70.11 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $10.00 / $50.00 | $1.50 / $7.50 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 74.8 (Supported · #3/151)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 50.7 (Supported · #60/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 85% | 83% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.5% | 73.8% | Claude Fable 5 |

### Coding

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.9 (Supported · #2/183)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 58.9 (Supported · #30/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 80% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 48.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 53.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 70.5% | 53.5% | Claude Fable 5 |
| VulcanBench v3 | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 89.8% | 88.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 95.0% | 79.6% | Claude Fable 5 |
| deepSwe | Coming soon | 49% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 62.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 82.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.2 (#11/22)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 77.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 83.6 (Supported · #2/181)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: 68.6 (Supported · #18/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | 93.4% | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.5% | 89.3% | Claude Fable 5 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 78.3 (#54/120)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Fable 5 or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Claude Fable 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Fable 5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 74.8 for Claude Fable 5 and 50.7 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Fable 5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Fable 5 currently has 18 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3.6 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 3.6 Flash currently has 8 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Fable 5.1](/compare/claude-fable-vs-claude-fable-5-1)
- [Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Claude Fable 5.1](/compare/claude-fable-5-1-vs-gemini-3-6-flash)
- [Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-6 Astra](/compare/claude-fable-vs-gpt-6-astra)
- [Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GPT-6 Astra](/compare/gemini-3-6-flash-vs-gpt-6-astra)

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