# Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Fable 5 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-fable-vs-mistral-medium-3-5-128b
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Fable 5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B 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 48.95.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 74.8 for Claude Fable 5 and 27.4 for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond (Vals) in Knowledge, with scores of 93.2% and 34.8%.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B 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 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Mistral |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M+ | 256K |
| Overall Score | 80.9 | 48.95 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $10.00 / $50.00 | $1.50 / $7.50 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 74.8 (Supported · #3/151)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 27.4 (Supported · #141/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | 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% | 39.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 39.10% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.9 (Supported · #2/183)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 41.1 (Estimated · #136/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% | 77.6% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 80% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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% | 66.4% | Claude Fable 5 |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 62.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 55.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | 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)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 68 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 83.5 (Supported · #2/181)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 42 (Supported · #131/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | 34.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.5% | 75.3% | Claude Fable 5 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 78.3 (#54/120)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 83.7 (#47/120)

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Fable 5 or Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

Claude Fable 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Fable 5 and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 74.8 for Claude Fable 5 and 27.4 for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.

### 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 Mistral Medium 3.5 128B cover on BenchLM?

Mistral Medium 3.5 128B currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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