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Claude Fable 5 vs Qwen3.8 27B

Claude Fable 5 grades higher overall (90.7 against 74.4). Qwen3.8 27B costs 96% 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

Qwen3.8 27B

by Qwen · #25 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
256K
Input / 1M
$0.20
Output / 1M
$2.50

Better overall

Claude Fable 5

Grade 90.7 vs 74.4

Cheaper

Qwen3.8 27B

96% less, $0.78 vs $20.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Fable 5

1M vs 256K tokens

SWE-Bench Pro

Claude Fable 5

80% vs 61.7%

Head to head

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

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 95%v
Qwen3.8 27BQwen3.8 27B: —
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Aug 5, 2026 · reference
Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Aug 5, 2026 · reference
LiveCodeBenchpass@1, % · LiveCodeBench · Aug 5, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: —

Claude Fable 5Qwen3.8 27Bv = 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
Qwen3.8 27B$140 /month

Qwen3.8 27B saves you $3,860 a month at this usage, $46,320 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Fable 5Qwen3.8 27B
Made byAnthropicQwen
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 90.7Excellent · 74.4
Overall rank#3 of 67#25 of 67
Input price$10.00 per 1M$0.20 per 1M
Output price$50.00 per 1M$2.50 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens262,144 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesYes
Reads imagesYesYes
Model IDclaude-fable-5qwen3.8-27b

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": "qwen3.8-27b", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3.8 27B better?

Claude Fable 5 grades 90.7 against 74.4 for Qwen3.8 27B, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Qwen3.8 27B?

Qwen3.8 27B: $0.20 in and $2.50 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, LiveCodeBench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.