# Claude Fable 5.1 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Gemini 3.6 Flash in 7 of 7 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Vision, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

Claude Fable 5.1: $20 per 1M blended tokens.

Gemini 3.6 Flash: $1.5 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5.1: closed weights.

Gemini 3.6 Flash: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Gemini 3.6 Flash in General LLM at #6 against #19.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Gemini 3.6 Flash in Reasoning at #5 against #25.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Gemini 3.6 Flash in Coding › Web dev at #5 against #41.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Gemini 3.6 Flash in Long context at #6 against #30.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Gemini 3.6 Flash in Vision at #6 against #29.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Gemini 3.6 Flash in Factuality at #1 against #23.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Gemini 3.6 Flash in Abstraction (ARC) at #3 against #13.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 is tied for state of the art in Factuality (since Oct 2, 2026; sources LMArena Text factuality; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3.6 Flash is ranked #9 in Science (since Oct 15, 2026; sources GPQA Diamond; methodology v1.0).