# Claude Fable 5 vs Minimax M3

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M3 in 5 of 6 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

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

Minimax M3: $0.5249999999999999 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Minimax M3: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M3 in General LLM at #3 against #87.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M3 in Reasoning at #3 against #80.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Minimax M3 leads Claude Fable 5 in Science at #28 against #56.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M3 in Coding › Web dev at #19 against #54.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M3 in Long context at #3 against #76.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Minimax M3 in Factuality at #7 against #94.

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 M3 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).