# Claude Fable 5 vs Minimax M2 7

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 7 in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

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

Minimax M2 7: $0.5249999999999999 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Minimax M2 7: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 7 in General LLM at #3 against #129.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 7 in Reasoning at #3 against #120.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 7 in Coding › Web dev at #19 against #80.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 7 in Long context at #3 against #117.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M2 7 in Factuality at #7 against #117.

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, Minimax M2 7 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Mar 20, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).