# Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Fable 5 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-fable-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next
- Last updated: October 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude Fable 5 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next has the lower published output-token price.
- Claude Fable 5 has the larger published context window at 1M+.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M+ | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 79.16 | 64.23 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 21 | 24 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $10.00 / $50.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 74.7 (Supported · #5/123)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 59.5 (Estimated · #24/123)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 34% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 73.9% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 55.7% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 51.2% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 19.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 71.6 (Supported · #6/146)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 52.4 (Supported · #37/146)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 80% | 62.5% | Claude Fable 5 |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 47.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 53.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 81% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 48.1% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 58.7% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 91.9% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 84.4 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 80.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 66 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 87.7 (#8/54)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 64.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 72.3% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 76.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.6% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 95.7% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 84.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 90.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 82.3 (Supported · #6/177)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 59.4 (Supported · #47/177)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 35.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 35.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 77.1 (#59/127)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 91.2 (#22/127)

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 81.3% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude Fable 5 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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