# Claude Fable 5 vs Inkling Small

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

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

Inkling Small: $0.6375000000000001 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Inkling Small: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Inkling Small in General LLM at #3 against #144.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Inkling Small in Reasoning at #3 against #141.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Inkling Small in Coding › Web dev at #19 against #75.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Inkling Small in Long context at #3 against #162.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Inkling Small in Factuality at #7 against #113.

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, Inkling Small is ranked #75 in Coding › Web dev (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).