# Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen2 5

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Qwen2 5 in 3 of 3 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, and Long context.

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

Qwen2 5: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Qwen2 5: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Qwen2 5 in General LLM at #3 against #182.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Qwen2 5 in Reasoning at #3 against #185.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Qwen2 5 in Long context at #3 against #175.

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, Qwen2 5 is ranked #175 in Long context (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query); methodology v1.0).