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Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo

Claude Fable 5 grades higher overall (90.7 against 48.0). Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo costs 98% 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

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo

by Qwen · #50 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
256K
Input / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$1.00

Better overall

Claude Fable 5

Grade 90.7 vs 48.0

Cheaper

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo

98% less, $0.47 vs $20.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Fable 5

1M vs 256K tokens

SWE-bench Verified

Claude Fable 5

95% vs 69.6%

Head to head

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

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,503
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct TurboQwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo: 1,388
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,624
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct TurboQwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo: 1,275
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,551
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct TurboQwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo: 1,457
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 95%v
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct TurboQwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo: 69.6%v
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 80%v
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct TurboQwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo: —
Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct TurboQwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo: —

Claude Fable 5Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbov = 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
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo$100 /month

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo saves you $3,900 a month at this usage, $46,800 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Fable 5Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo
Made byAnthropicQwen
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 90.7Good · 48.0
Overall rank#3 of 67#50 of 67
Input price$10.00 per 1M$0.30 per 1M
Output price$50.00 per 1M$1.00 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens262,144 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesNo
Reads imagesYesNo
Model IDclaude-fable-5qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo

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": "qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo better?

Claude Fable 5 grades 90.7 against 48.0 for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo?

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo: $0.30 in and $1.00 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.

Model rankingsAll benchmarksCompare other models

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.