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Claude Fable 5vsGLM-5.2

Claude Fable 5 leads 24 of 27 shared benchmarks. GLM-5.2 is 10.3x cheaper per token. Both offer a 1M-token context window.

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Shared benchmarks
24 – 2
Claude Fable 5 leads · 1 tied
Cheaper per token
GLM-5.2
10.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · Z.ai
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-09
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$10 ↗
Output /1M
$50 ↗
Cached /1M
$1
Scores
44 · 11 core
GLM-5.2
Z.ai · released 2026-06-24
text
Context
1M
Max out
131K
Input /1M
$1.4 ↗
Output /1M
$4.4 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.26
Scores
53 · 12 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5GLM-5.2ΔEdge
Reported by both · 27
GPQA Diamond85.9% ↗epoch run91.9% ↗epoch run-6 ptGLM-5.2
LMArena Elo1504.3 ↗1475.8 ↗+28.5Claude Fable 5
APEX-Agents (Mercor)63.6% ↗45.2% ↗+18.4 ptClaude Fable 5
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)41% ↗epoch run21% ↗epoch run+20 ptClaude Fable 5
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)69.9% ↗43.8% ↗+26.1 ptClaude Fable 5
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)39.5% ↗epoch run9.5% ↗epoch run+30 ptClaude Fable 5
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)90.2% ↗epoch run29.3% ↗epoch run+60.9 ptClaude Fable 5
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)87% ↗epoch run59.2% ↗epoch run+27.8 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)62.2% ↗51.8% ↗+10.4 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)86% ↗79.7% ↗+6.3 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)80.5% ↗73.7% ↗+6.8 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)75.8% ↗62.3% ↗+13.5 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)90.7% ↗76.2% ↗+14.5 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)96% ↗89.8% ↗+6.2 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)89.7% ↗78.6% ↗+11.1 ptClaude Fable 5
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.0821 ↗0.0348 ↗0Tie
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1625.3 ↗1605 ↗+20.3Claude Fable 5
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)52% ↗epoch run19% ↗epoch run+33 ptClaude Fable 5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)100% ↗epoch run86.4% ↗epoch run+13.6 ptClaude Fable 5
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)81.9% ↗58.8% ↗+23.1 ptClaude Fable 5
SimpleQA Verified70.7% ↗epoch run34.2% ↗epoch run+36.5 ptClaude Fable 5
SWE-Bench Pro80% ↗62.1% ↗+17.9 ptClaude Fable 5
SWE-rebench 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-01 (Nebius)64.5% ↗62.9% ↗+1.6 ptClaude Fable 5
tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra)39.7% ↗37.1% ↗+2.6 ptClaude Fable 5
Terminal-Bench 2.184.3% ↗81% ↗+3.3 ptClaude Fable 5
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)5680.26 ↗8313.78 ↗-2633.5GLM-5.2
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)91.9% ↗70.1% ↗+21.8 ptClaude Fable 5
Only Claude Fable 5 reports · 17
SWE-bench Verified95% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench17.4% ↗not reported——
Blueprint-Bench 238.6% ↗not reported——
CursorBench72.9% ↗not reported——
FrontierCode (Diamond)29.3% ↗not reported——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)47% ↗not reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)35.8% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GDP.pdf29.8% ↗not reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)76.5% ↗not reported——
Legal Agent Benchmark (Harvey's Held-Out Set)13.3% ↗not reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1308.8 ↗not reported——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)63.9% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OfficeQA Pro57.9% ↗not reported——
OSWorld-Verified85% ↗not reported——
OSWorld-Verified (XLANG)86% ↗not reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)51.9% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)41.4% ↗not reported——
Only GLM-5.2 reports · 19
AIME 2026not reported90% ↗matharena ⚠——
Agents' Last Exam (ALE-CLI)not reported23.8% ↗——
AutomationBench v1.0.6not reported26.2% ↗——
CyberGymnot reported77.2% ↗——
DeepSWE v1.1not reported46.2% ↗——
ExploitBenchnot reported24.4% ↗——
ExploitGym 2hnot reported29 ↗——
ExploitGym 6hnot reported39 ↗——
FrontierSWEnot reported67.5% ↗——
GDPval-AA v2not reported1508 ↗——
HLE (with tools)not reported54.7% ↗——
NL2Reponot reported48.9% ↗——
PostTrainBenchnot reported31.7% ↗——
ProgramBench (Almost Solved)not reported9.5% ↗——
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)not reported78.7% ↗epoch run——
SWE-Marathon v1.1not reported19.4% ↗——
Terminal-Bench 3.0not reported4.6% ↗——
Toolathlon Verifiednot reported59.9% ↗——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)not reported59.9% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Fable 5 minus GLM-5.2 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Fable 5GLM-5.2Edge
Context window1M tokens1M tokensTie
Max output128K tokens131K tokensGLM-5.2
Input price / 1M$10 ↗$1.4 ↗GLM-5.2
Output price / 1M$50 ↗$4.4 ↗GLM-5.2
Cached input / 1M$1 ↗$0.26 ↗GLM-5.2
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$60$5.8GLM-5.2
Modalitiestext · visiontextClaude Fable 5
Released2026-06-092026-06-24—
Cited benchmark scores4453—
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