# Claude Fable 5.1 vs Minimax M3

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Minimax M3 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.

Minimax M3: $0.5249999999999999 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5.1: closed weights.

Minimax M3: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Minimax M3 in General LLM at #6 against #69.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Minimax M3 in Reasoning at #5 against #63.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Minimax M3 in Coding › Web dev at #5 against #49.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Minimax M3 in Long context at #6 against #62.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 leads Minimax M3 in Factuality at #1 against #75.

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, Minimax M3 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).