Across 27 shared benchmarks, Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on 25 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 on 2. The widest gap is critpt, where Claude Fable 5.1 scores 31.1 against 3.1. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($3.00 against $10.00 per million input tokens).
Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing. Quoted rates are the price-setter row we currently track for each model — its direct or vendor-official listing where one exists (direct, anthropic-official), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.