# Claude Fable 5 vs MiniMax M2.7

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-fable-vs-minimax-m2-7
- 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. MiniMax M2.7 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 58.98.
- The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 83.5 for Claude Fable 5 and 50.2 for MiniMax M2.7.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) in Agentic, with scores of 80.5% and 48.7%.
- MiniMax M2.7 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 | MiniMax M2.7 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M+ | 200K |
| Overall Score | 80.9 | 58.98 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 23 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $10.00 / $50.00 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 74.8 (Supported · #3/151)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 43.1 (Estimated · #107/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 84.3% | 57% | Claude Fable 5 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.5% | 48.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 46.3% | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 66.6% | Coming soon |
| MM-ClawBench | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 40.40% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.9 (Supported · #2/183)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 50.5 (Estimated · #70/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 80% | 56.2% | 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% | 79.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 95.0% | 73.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 75.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 51.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |
| Multi-SWE Bench | Coming soon | 52.7% | Coming soon |
| VIBE-Pro | Coming soon | 55.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 27.04% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 71.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 62.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2.7 | 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)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 75.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 83.5 (Supported · #2/181)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 50.2 (Supported · #88/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | 86.6% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.5% | 80.4% | Claude Fable 5 |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 87.0% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 78.3 (#54/120)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 92.7 (#10/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Fable 5 or MiniMax M2.7?

Claude Fable 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M2.7?

The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 83.5 for Claude Fable 5 and 50.2 for MiniMax M2.7.

### 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 MiniMax M2.7 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M2.7 currently has 23 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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