Across 15 shared benchmarks, Claude Fable 5.1 scores higher on 15 and DeepSeek-V3 on 0. The widest gap is TauBench V3 - Banking, where Claude Fable 5.1 scores 47.2 against 4.7. DeepSeek-V3 is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($0.27 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 (anthropic-official, direct), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.