# Claude Fable 5 vs Gemini 3 Pro

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3 Pro in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

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

Gemini 3 Pro: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Gemini 3 Pro: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3 Pro in General LLM at #3 against #16.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3 Pro in Reasoning at #3 against #23.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3 Pro in Coding › Web dev at #19 against #65.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3 Pro in Long context at #3 against #24.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Gemini 3 Pro in Factuality at #7 against #10.

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 Pro is a former state-of-the-art holder in General LLM (since Nov 17, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).