Is Claude Fable 5 SOTA? Close

Q: Is Claude Fable 5 state of the art?

Close. Near-SOTA in General LLM, rank #4. As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 from Anthropic. Near-SOTA in General LLM, rank #4. Close in General LLM: rank #4, 2.1 percentile points behind the leader.

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Is Claude Fable 5 state of the art?

Close.Near-SOTA in General LLM, rank #4.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Fable 5 from Anthropic. Near-SOTA in General LLM, rank #4. Close in General LLM: rank #4, 2.1 percentile points behind the leader.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: medium

General LLMNear-SOTA#4 · 0d General LLM · paretoNear-SOTA#4 · 0d ReasoningNear-SOTA#4 · 0d Reasoning · paretoNear-SOTA#4 · 0d MathNot SOTA · #1#1 · 0d ScienceNot SOTA · #66#66 · 0d CodingNot SOTA · #8#8 · 0d Coding · paretoNot SOTA · #8#8 · 0d Coding › AgenticNot SOTA · #8#8 · 0d Coding › Agentic · paretoNot SOTA · #8#8 · 0d

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Why

The ruling, in plain English

Close in General LLM: rank #4, 2.1 percentile points behind the leader.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot

Source	Score	Date	Type	Receipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall) claude-fable-5-high · high	1503.693577172815 1499.4–1508.0	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts) claude-fable-5-high · high	1529.6731894369732 1524.7–1534.7	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text (style-controlled, math) claude-fable-5-high · high	1523.6225469538317 1510.2–1537.0	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_368d64825bf4
GPQA Diamond claude-fable-5_max · max	0.8585858585858586 0.8–0.9	2026-06-09	INDEP.	snap_fee7890b5dd0
Terminal-Bench 4.0 Fable 5 max · max	44.55 40.7–48.4	2026-10-06	INDEP.	snap_13678220dcf7
LMArena WebDev claude-fable-5-high · high	1624.7356714393125 1618.4–1631.1	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_6949d6fb2488
LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query) claude-fable-5-high · high	1521.3092641024375 1515.6–1527.0	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_368d64825bf4
GDP.pdf claude-fable-5_unknown	0.3	2026-06-09	INDEP.	snap_fee7890b5dd0
LMArena Text factuality claude-fable-5-high · high	1483.7803862410397 1480.3–1487.2	2026-10-08	INDEP.	snap_f051faf18005
ARC-AGI claude-fable-5_max · max	0.985	2026-06-09	INDEP.	snap_fee7890b5dd0

Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

Full timeline →

General LLM

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

GPT-4O

O1 Preview

DeepSeek R1

GPT-4.5 Preview

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Claude Opus 4.1

Gemini 2.5 Pro

GPT-5

Gemini 2.5 Pro

GPT-5

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 2.5 Pro

GPT-4.5 Preview

Gemini 3 Pro

Claude Opus 4.6

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Claude Opus 4.6

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GPT-5.4

Muse Spark

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Muse Spark

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GPT-5.5

Muse Spark

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Muse Spark

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Muse Spark

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Muse Spark 1.1

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 5

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Muse Spark 1.2

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Muse Spark 1.2

Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5.1

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Muse Spark 1.2

Gemini 4 Argon

Reasoning

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

O1 Mini

O1 Preview

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

O1 Preview

DeepSeek R1

O3 Mini

DeepSeek R1

GPT-4.5 Preview

DeepSeek R1

GPT-4.5 Preview

DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek V3 0324

GPT-4.5 Preview

Claude Opus 4

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507

Claude Opus 4.1

Gemini 2.5 Pro

GPT-5

Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507

Claude Opus 4.1

Gemini 2.5 Pro

GPT-5

Claude Opus 4.1

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

Claude Opus 4.5

Gemini 3 Pro

Claude Opus 4.6

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Claude Opus 4.6

Muse Spark

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 5

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 5

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5.1

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 5.5

Gemini 4 Argon

Coding › Web dev

Claude Opus 4.1

Claude Sonnet 4.5

GLM 4.6

Gemini 3 Pro

Claude Opus 4.5

Gemini 3 Pro

Claude Opus 4.6

GLM 5.1

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Fable 5

GPT-5.6 Sol

Kimi K3

Claude Opus 5

Kimi K3

Claude Opus 5

Kimi K3

Claude Fable 5.1

GPT-6 Astra

Claude Opus 5.5

GPT-6 Astra

Claude Opus 5.5

Long context

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

O1 Preview

DeepSeek R1

Gemini 2.0 Flash 001

DeepSeek R1

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

GPT-4.5 Preview

DeepSeek V3 0324

GPT-4.5 Preview

DeepSeek V3 0324

GPT-4.1

GPT-4.5 Preview

DeepSeek V3 0324

GPT-4.1

GPT-4.5 Preview

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Claude Opus 4.1

Gemini 2.5 Pro

GPT-5

Gemini 2.5 Pro

GPT-5

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 2.5 Pro

GPT-4.5 Preview

Claude Sonnet 4.5

DeepSeek V3.2 Exp

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 3 Pro

Claude Opus 4.6

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Claude Opus 4.6

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Claude Opus 4.6

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GLM 5.1

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

GPT-5.5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

GPT-5.5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Kimi K3

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 5

Kimi K3

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 5

Muse Spark 1.2

Claude Fable 5

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Fable 5

Claude Fable 5.1

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.7

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Claude Opus 5.5

Gemini 4 Argon

Honest about the gaps

Where it is not the crown

Category	This model	Why
General LLM	Near-SOTA	Close in General LLM: rank #4, 2.1 percentile points behind the leader.
Reasoning	Near-SOTA	Close in Reasoning: rank #4, 2.1 percentile points behind the leader.
Math	Not SOTA · #1	Ranked #1 in Math.
Science	Not SOTA · #66	Last listed at #66 in Science on 2026-06-09. That board does not award a crown.
Coding	Not SOTA · #8	Ranked #8 in Coding.
Coding › Agentic	Not SOTA · #8	Ranked #8 in Coding › Agentic.
Coding › Web dev	Was SOTA	Was SOTA in Coding › Web dev from 2026-07-12 to 2026-07-20. Currently ranked #16.
Long context	Near-SOTA	Close in Long context: rank #4, 2.1 percentile points behind the leader.