# Claude Fable 5 vs MiniMax M3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-fable-vs-minimax-m3
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 11
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Fable 5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M3 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 63.91.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 74.8 for Claude Fable 5 and 43.2 for MiniMax M3.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) in Agentic, with scores of 80.5% and 53.6%.
- MiniMax M3 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | MiniMax |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M+ | 1M |
| Overall Score | 80.9 | 63.91 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 27 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $10.00 / $50.00 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 74.8 (Supported · #3/151)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 43.2 (Supported · #106/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 84.3% | 66% | Claude Fable 5 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 85% | 70.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.5% | 53.6% | Claude Fable 5 |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 83.5% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 74.5% | Coming soon |
| BankerToolBench | Coming soon | 76.1% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 19.8% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 4.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.9 (Supported · #2/183)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #68/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% | 80.5% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 80% | 59% | 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% | 66.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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% | 82.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 95.0% | 75.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 42.1% | Coming soon |
| VIBE V2 | Coming soon | 50.1% | Coming soon |
| SVG-Bench | Coming soon | 63.7% | Coming soon |
| KernelBench Hard | Coming soon | 28.8% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 48.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 62.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 52 (#34/48)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 57.9% | 45.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.1% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.6% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.2 (#11/22)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 78.5 (#5/22)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 83.5 (Supported · #2/181)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 53.9 (Supported · #65/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | 92.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.5% | 84.2% | Claude Fable 5 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 78.3 (#54/120)
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: 93.5 (#4/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | MiniMax M3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| USAMO 2026 | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Fable 5 or MiniMax M3?

Claude Fable 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Fable 5 and MiniMax M3?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 74.8 for Claude Fable 5 and 43.2 for MiniMax M3.

### 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 M3 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M3 currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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