# Claude Fable 5 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in 9 of 10 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding, Coding › Agentic, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Vision, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

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

Gemini 3.7 Flash: $1.5 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Gemini 3.7 Flash: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in General LLM at #3 against #14.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Reasoning at #3 against #16.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3.7 Flash leads Claude Fable 5 in Science at #5 against #56.
- Which to pick, Coding: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Coding at #6 against #20.
- Which to pick, Coding › Agentic: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Coding › Agentic at #6 against #20.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Coding › Web dev at #19 against #27.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Long context at #3 against #14.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Vision at #5 against #14.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Factuality at #7 against #16.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Abstraction (ARC) at #1 against #6.

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, Gemini 3.7 Flash is state of the art on best per dollar in Vision (since Oct 14, 2026; sources GDP.pdf; methodology v1.0).