# Claude Fable 5 vs Ling 3.0 Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Fable 5 and Ling 3.0 Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-fable-vs-ling-3-0-flash
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Fable 5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ling 3.0 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 80.9 to 52.2.
- The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 83.5 for Claude Fable 5 and 45.9 for Ling 3.0 Flash.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) in Agentic, with scores of 80.5% and 50.2%.
- Ling 3.0 Flash is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Claude Fable 5 also has the larger context window at 1M+.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Fable 5 | Ling 3.0 Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | InclusionAI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M+ | 262K |
| Overall Score | 80.9 | 52.2 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 22 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $10.00 / $50.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 74.8 (Supported · #3/151)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 40 (Supported · #121/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Ling 3.0 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.5% | 50.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 44.8% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 73.0% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 73.6% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 72.2% | Coming soon |
| DRACO | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.9 (Supported · #2/183)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 42.8 (Estimated · #126/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 80% | 56.6% | 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% | 84.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 95.0% | 65.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 72.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v5 | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 41.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 62.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Ling 3.0 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)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 69.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 83.5 (Supported · #2/181)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 45.9 (Supported · #112/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | 84.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.5% | 82.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 22.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 78.3 (#54/120)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 75.6 (#58/120)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 74.5% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 93.2% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.0% | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Fable 5 or Ling 3.0 Flash?

Claude Fable 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Fable 5 and Ling 3.0 Flash?

The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 83.5 for Claude Fable 5 and 45.9 for Ling 3.0 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 Ling 3.0 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Ling 3.0 Flash currently has 22 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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