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Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Claude Fable 5 grades higher overall (90.7 against 68.7). Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct 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 VL 235B A22B Instruct

by Qwen · #31 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
256K
Input / 1M
$0.20
Output / 1M
$0.88

Better overall

Claude Fable 5

Grade 90.7 vs 68.7

Cheaper

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

98% less, $0.37 vs $20.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Fable 5

1M vs 256K tokens

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 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 1,413
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,624
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,551
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 1,463
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 95%v
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 80%v
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 84.3%v
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —

Claude Fable 5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructv = 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 VL 235B A22B Instruct$75.20 /month

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct saves you $3,925 a month at this usage, $47,098 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Fable 5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Made byAnthropicQwen
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 90.7Strong · 68.7
Overall rank#3 of 67#31 of 67
Input price$10.00 per 1M$0.20 per 1M
Output price$50.00 per 1M$0.88 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens262,144 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesYes
Reads imagesYesYes
Model IDclaude-fable-5qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct

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-vl-235b-a22b-instruct", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct better?

Claude Fable 5 grades 90.7 against 68.7 for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: $0.20 in and $0.88 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.

Compare with others

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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.