# Claude Fable 5 vs Command A 03 2025

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Command A 03 2025 in 2 of 2 shared categories: Long context and Factuality.

Claude Fable 5: $20 per 1M blended tokens.

Command A 03 2025: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Command A 03 2025: open weights.

- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Command A 03 2025 in Long context at #3 against #188.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Command A 03 2025 in Factuality at #7 against #162.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 is near state of the art, rank #3 in General LLM (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Command A 03 2025 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Long context (since Mar 25, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query); methodology v1.0).