Claude Fable 5vsGPT-5.6 Sol
Claude Fable 5 leads the overall Podium Score by 12.6 points (93.4 vs 80.8).Category wins: Claude Fable 5 3 — 2 GPT-5.6 Sol.GPT-5.6 Sol is the cheaper pick ($30/M vs $50/M per 1M output tokens). GPT-5.6 Sol is faster (72 t/s vs 71 t/s).
| Metric | Claude Fable 5 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 93.4 ▲ | 80.8 |
| Arena Elo | 1509 ▲ | 1483 |
| Intelligence Index | 60.0 ▲ | 59.0 |
| Coding | 84.1 ▲ | 64.8 |
| Math | — | 70.7 |
| Reasoning | 81.0 | 87.6 ▲ |
| Agentic | 96.2 ▲ | 33.9 |
| Knowledge | 43.3 ▲ | 22.0 |
| Multimodal | — | 97.4 |
| Long-context | 99.2 | 100.0 ▲ |
| Output speed | 71 t/s | 72 t/s ▲ |
| Output price | $50/M | $30/M ▲ |
| Context window | 1000K | 1100K ▲ |
Scores aggregated from five leaderboards on 2026-08-05. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Mythos Preview · Claude Fable 5 vs Kimi K3 · Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 5 · Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.8 Max