# Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Large 4

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Mistral Large 4 in 5 of 6 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

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

Mistral Large 4: $1.0324999999999998 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Mistral Large 4: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Mistral Large 4 in General LLM at #3 against #79.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Mistral Large 4 in Reasoning at #3 against #76.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, Mistral Large 4 leads Claude Fable 5 in Science at #45 against #56.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Mistral Large 4 in Coding › Web dev at #17 against #36.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Mistral Large 4 in Long context at #3 against #85.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Mistral Large 4 in Factuality at #7 against #78.

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, Mistral Large 4 is ranked #36 in Coding › Web dev (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).
