# Claude Fable 5 vs O3 Mini

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads O3 Mini in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Science, Long context, and Abstraction (ARC).

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

O3 Mini: $1.9250000000000003 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

O3 Mini: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads O3 Mini in General LLM at #3 against #10.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads O3 Mini in Reasoning at #3 against #172.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads O3 Mini in Science at #56 against #76.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads O3 Mini in Long context at #3 against #186.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads O3 Mini in Abstraction (ARC) at #1 against #51.

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, O3 Mini is a former state-of-the-art holder in Reasoning (since Feb 9, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).