# Claude Fable 5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in 7 of 8 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Vision, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

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

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: $0.26249999999999996 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in General LLM at #3 against #32.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Reasoning at #3 against #29.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads Claude Fable 5 in Science at #36 against #56.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Coding › Web dev at #19 against #21.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Long context at #3 against #37.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Vision at #5 against #21.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Factuality at #7 against #25.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Abstraction (ARC) at #1 against #8.

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, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is state of the art on best per dollar in General LLM (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).