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Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) and Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 18 August 2026

As of 18 August 2026, Claude Fable 5 holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#1 vs #38); Mistral Medium 3.5 is 6.7× cheaper per output token ($7.50/1M vs $50.00/1M); and Claude Fable 5 offers the longer context window (1M vs 262K tokens).

Which should you choose?

Choose Claude Fable 5 if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #1 against #38 (84.2 vs 53.9 points).
  • you need the longer context window — 1M tokens against 262K.
  • you want provider choice — 5 listed API providers against 1.
  • Arena coding is your yardstick — 1554 against 1479.
  • LMArena Agent is your yardstick — 12.0% against -7.0%.
  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index is your yardstick — 62.1 against 30.4.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Claude Fable 5 was listed 9 June 2026, Mistral Medium 3.5 30 April 2026.

Choose Mistral Medium 3.5 if…

  • API cost matters — $7.50/1M output tokens against $50.00/1M, about 6.7× cheaper.
  • your workload is prompt-heavy — input tokens cost $1.50/1M against $10.00/1M.

Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Claude Fable 5 and Mistral Medium 3.5
FieldClaude Fable 5AnthropicMistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI
ModelCap Index position#1#38
Index score84.253.9
EvidenceMeasuredMeasured
Input price / 1M tokens$10.00$1.50
Output price / 1M tokens$50.00$7.50
Context window1M tokens262K tokens
Max output tokens128K—
API providers listed51
Weight accessAPI onlyAPI only
Input modalitiesText, Image, FileText, Image, File
First listed9 June 202630 April 2026
PublisherAnthropicMistral AI

Evidence: 7 public benchmark observations across 7 boards · 4 public benchmark observations across 4 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Public benchmark boards where Claude Fable 5 or Mistral Medium 3.5 has a published result
BoardClaude Fable 5Mistral Medium 3.5Leads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)15541546–156314791468–1490Claude Fable 5
LMArena AgentLMArena12.0%9.4%–14.6%High-7.0%-9.0%–-5.0%Claude Fable 5
ARC-AGI-2ARC Prize Foundation89.2%Max—Only one result
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Terminus 2Terminal-Bench80.4High—Only one result
WildClawBench OpenClawWildClawBench62.0—Only one result
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis62.1intelligence-index30.4intelligence-indexClaude Fable 5

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5: common questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Claude Fable 5 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 18 August 2026: #1 against #38. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.

Is Claude Fable 5 cheaper than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper on output tokens: $7.50/1M against $50.00/1M. Input tokens are $10.00/1M for Claude Fable 5 and $1.50/1M for Mistral Medium 3.5. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Claude Fable 5 has the larger context window: 1M tokens against 262K.

Which is better for coding, Claude Fable 5 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Arena coding: Claude Fable 5 1554, Mistral Medium 3.5 1479 — Claude Fable 5 leads.

Are Claude Fable 5 and Mistral Medium 3.5 open-weight models?

Claude Fable 5: API only. Mistral Medium 3.5: API only. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Claude Fable 5 and Mistral Medium 3.5?

ModelCap currently lists 5 API providers for Claude Fable 5 and 1 for Mistral Medium 3.5, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Claude Fable 5 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 18 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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