Which is better, Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3.5 2B?

Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.5 2B

20 SHARED BENCHMARKS

Across 20 shared benchmarks, Claude Fable 5 scores higher on 20 and Qwen3.5 2B on 0. The widest gap is AA Intelligence, where Claude Fable 5 scores 62 against 6.9.

ANTHROPICVSALIBABA20 SHARED20–0 HEAD-TO-HEAD

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5MARGINQwen3.5 2B

AA Agentic Index510.8

AA Intelligence626.9

AA-LCR82.325.6

AA-Omniscience43.3-60.2

Artificial Analysis Coding Index76.52.9

critpt28.60

gdpval56.60

Global-MMLU-Lite93.364.5

GPQA Diamond92.651.6

HLE64.55

IFBench63.541.3

MMMU-Pro84.243

OmniScience Accuracy65.38.1

OmniScience Non-Hallucination36.425.8

scicode617.2

TauBench V3 - Banking38.12.5

Terminal-Bench 2.1883

Terminal-Bench Hard62.93.8

τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)98.581.6

τ³-Bench26.86.2

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.

Compare Claude Fable 5 withALL PAIRINGS →

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.8 Claude Opus 4.6 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude 3.5 Sonnet Claude Opus 4.5 Claude Opus 5

Across the fieldQwen3.6 27B Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.8 Max Preview Qwen3.7 Plus Preview Claude Opus 4 Qwen3.5 4B Gemini 3.6 Flash Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Compare Qwen3.5 2B withALL PAIRINGS →

AlibabaQwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3 VL 4B (Reasoning)Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.6 Plus

Across the fieldGPT-5 Claude Opus 4.5 DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek-V3 Kimi K2.6 Kimi K2.5 o3 GPT-5.1