# Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3 Max

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Qwen3 Max in 4 of 4 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Science, and Long context.

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

Qwen3 Max: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Qwen3 Max: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Qwen3 Max in General LLM at #3 against #88.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Qwen3 Max in Reasoning at #3 against #83.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Qwen3 Max in Science at #56 against #84.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Qwen3 Max in Long context at #3 against #92.

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, Qwen3 Max is ranked #83 in Reasoning (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).