Verdict
Claude Fable 5.1 leads 4–0 across 5 shared benchmarks.
Claude Fable 5.1 4 · Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 0 · 1 tied · higher isn't always better — check the caveats below.
Reported scores — protocols may differ. How we compare
Math: Claude Fable 5.1 leads 1–0 across 2 shared math benchmarks (largest gap: FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private, 87.8 vs 34.15 — protocols undisclosed).
Claude Fable 5.1 leads 4–0 across 5 shared benchmarks. Claude Fable 5.1 leads 4 benchmarks and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) leads 0, with 1 tied. Higher isn't always better — see the integrity caveats on each benchmark.
Claude Fable 5.1 and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) have 5 benchmarks in common in our data — those are the only rows where a direct, apples-to-apples comparison is drawn.
Claude Fable 5.1 leads math 1–0.