# Claude Fable 5 vs Minimax M2 5

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 5 in 6 of 6 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

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

Minimax M2 5: $0.47250000000000003 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Minimax M2 5: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 5 in General LLM at #3 against #127.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 5 in Reasoning at #3 against #119.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 5 in Coding › Web dev at #17 against #77.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 5 in Long context at #3 against #116.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 5 in Factuality at #7 against #113.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 5 in Abstraction (ARC) at #1 against #36.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 is near state of the art, rank #3 in General LLM (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, Minimax M2 5 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Feb 19, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).