# Claude Fable 5 vs Kimi K3

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Kimi K3 in 6 of 8 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Long context, Vision, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

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

Kimi K3: $4.109999999999999 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Kimi K3: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Kimi K3 in General LLM at #3 against #13.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Kimi K3 in Reasoning at #3 against #7.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Claude Fable 5 in Science at #17 against #56.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Claude Fable 5 in Coding › Web dev at #12 against #19.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Kimi K3 in Long context at #3 against #8.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Kimi K3 in Vision at #5 against #22.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Kimi K3 in Factuality at #7 against #22.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Kimi K3 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, Kimi K3 is tied for state of the art in General LLM (since Oct 13, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).