# Claude Fable 5 vs Beam

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-fable-vs-reflection-beam
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Fable 5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Beam 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 78.82 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Pro in Coding, with scores of 80% and 65.5%.
- Beam 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 | Beam |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Reflection AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Pending |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M+ | null |
| Overall Score | 78.82 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 21 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $10.00 / $50.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 74.5 (Supported · #5/119)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 84.3% | 80.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 34% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 78.7% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 72.1 (Supported · #6/144)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 95% | 80.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 80% | 65.5% | 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% | 80.1% | Claude Fable 5 |
| 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 |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 44.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 34.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 49.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 80.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 62.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 38.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 80.9 (Supported · #6/171)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 90.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: 75.7 (#58/125)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.7% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Fable 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 97.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Fable 5 or Beam?

Claude Fable 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Fable 5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Fable 5 currently has 21 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Beam cover on BenchLM?

Beam currently has 16 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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