# Claude Fable 5 vs GLM-5

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-fable-vs-glm-5
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude Fable 5 and GLM-5 share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- GLM-5 has the lower published output-token price.
- Claude Fable 5 has the larger published context window at 1M+.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Fable 5 | GLM-5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Z.AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M+ | 200K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 80.9 | 62.16 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 36 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $10.00 / $50.00 | $1.00 / $3.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 74.8 (Supported · #3/151)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 50 (Estimated · #65/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 84.3% | 56.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 57.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 54.1% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 14.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 38% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 31.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 69.8% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 43.2% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 50.99% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.9 (Supported · #2/183)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 49.1 (Supported · #80/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% | 77.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 80% | 55.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 89.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 95.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 72.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 62.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon

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

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.2 (#11/22)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 51.6 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 63.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 83.5 (Supported · #2/181)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 54.9 (Estimated · #62/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 86% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 85.8% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 50.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 78.3 (#54/120)
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.3 (#31/120)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 83.1% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 55.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.9 (#7/7)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | GLM-5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 97.5% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 16.434% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 2.100% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude Fable 5 and GLM-5?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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