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Claude Fable 5 vs GPT OSS 20B

Claude Fable 5 grades higher overall (90.7 against 36.3). GPT OSS 20B costs 100% less for the same work.

Claude Fable 5

by Anthropic · #3 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$10.00
Output / 1M
$50.00

GPT OSS 20B

by OpenAI · #58 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
128K
Input / 1M
$0.030
Output / 1M
$0.14

Better overall

Claude Fable 5

Grade 90.7 vs 36.3

Cheaper

GPT OSS 20B

100% less, $0.058 vs $20.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Fable 5

1M vs 128K tokens

SWE-bench Verified

Claude Fable 5

95% vs 60.7%

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 28, 2026
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,624
GPT OSS 20BGPT OSS 20B: —
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 28, 2026
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 80%v
GPT OSS 20BGPT OSS 20B: —
Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
GPT OSS 20BGPT OSS 20B: —

Claude Fable 5GPT OSS 20Bv = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Claude Fable 5$4,000 /month
GPT OSS 20B$11.60 /month

GPT OSS 20B saves you $3,988 a month at this usage, $47,861 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Fable 5GPT OSS 20B
Made byAnthropicOpenAI
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 90.7Good · 36.3
Overall rank#3 of 67#58 of 67
Input price$10.00 per 1M$0.030 per 1M
Output price$50.00 per 1M$0.14 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens131,072 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesYes
Reads imagesYesNo
Model IDclaude-fable-5gpt-oss-20b

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key
# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-fable-5", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "gpt-oss-20b", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Fable 5 or GPT OSS 20B better?

Claude Fable 5 grades 90.7 against 36.3 for GPT OSS 20B, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or GPT OSS 20B?

GPT OSS 20B: $0.030 in and $0.14 out per million tokens, against $10.00 and $50.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Fable 5, with 1,000,000 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), SWE-bench, Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.