# Claude Fable 5 vs Granite 4.2 30B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Fable 5 and Granite 4.2 30B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-fable-vs-granite-4-2-30b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude Fable 5 and Granite 4.2 30B share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Granite 4.2 30B has the lower published output-token price.
- Claude Fable 5 has the larger published context window at 1M+.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 4.2 30B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | IBM |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M+ | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 81.43 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $10.00 / $50.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 74.6 (Supported · #3/152)
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 29.2% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 62.0% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 61.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 77 (Supported · #2/151)
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% | 57% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 80% | 33.3% | Claude Fable 5 |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 47.0% | 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 Multilingual | Coming soon | 41.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 29.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 38.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 62.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 4.2 30B | 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: 77.6 (#6/20)
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 83.3 (Supported · #2/183)
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 66.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 77.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 78.5 (#56/123)
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 77.2% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude Fable 5 and Granite 4.2 30B?

Not yet. The models share only 2 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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