# Claude Fable 5.1 vs Inkling Small

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Inkling Small in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

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

Inkling Small: $0.6375000000000001 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5.1: closed weights.

Inkling Small: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Inkling Small in General LLM at #6 against #110.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Inkling Small in Reasoning at #5 against #107.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Inkling Small in Coding › Web dev at #5 against #69.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Inkling Small in Long context at #6 against #125.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Inkling Small in Factuality at #1 against #89.

As of Oct 14, 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 14, 2026, Inkling Small is ranked #69 in Coding › Web dev (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).