# Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Fable 5 and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-fable-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 8
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Fable 5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus 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 61.49.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 74.8 for Claude Fable 5 and 36.4 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) in Agentic, with scores of 80.5% and 53.2%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M+ | 1M |
| Overall Score | 80.9 | 61.49 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 18 | 48 |
| 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)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 36.4 (Supported · #128/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 84.3% | 61.6% | Claude Fable 5 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.5% | 53.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 58.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 57.2% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 41.5% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 48.2% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.3% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 50.60% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.9 (Supported · #2/183)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 47 (Supported · #92/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% | 78.8% | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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% | 86.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 95.0% | 73.4% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 73.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 25.56% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 62.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 66.3 (#22/48)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 68.2% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 81.5% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 76.2 (#11/22)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 59.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Fable 5
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 83.5 (Supported · #2/181)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 54.7 (Supported · #63/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | 87.4% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.5% | 87.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 71.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 28.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 78.3 (#54/120)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.5 (#41/120)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.7 (#4/12)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 57.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 62.4 (#4/7)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 96.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 83.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 26.207% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 8.333% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Claude Fable 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Fable 5 and Qwen3.6 Plus?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 74.8 for Claude Fable 5 and 36.4 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

### 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 Qwen3.6 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6 Plus currently has 48 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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