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Claude Fable 5.1 vs GPT-6.1 Sol

Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 8 tasks where both are listed: Claude Fable 5.1 is a tier higher in 1 of 8 shared tasks, GPT-6.1 Sol in 1, they share a tier in 4.

Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic's highest-priced Claude tier, positioned for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work.

Vendor: Anthropic
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
Released: 1 Sep 2026
API price: $10 in / $50 out per 1M tokens
License: proprietary
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Claude Fable 5.1

GPT-6.1 Sol

OpenAI's mid-priced GPT tier, described as near-Astra performance for complex work at lower cost.

Vendor: OpenAI
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
Released: 29 Sep 2026
API price: $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens
License: proprietary
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to GPT-6.1 Sol

Task by task

Task	Claude Fable 5.1	GPT-6.1 Sol	Higher tier
Chat & assistants Models	S1,502 on LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	S1,484 on LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Search & research Models	S1,233 on LMArena Search Arena (style control) · Cloud	S1,250 on LMArena Search Arena (style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Writing Models	S1,485 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) · Cloud	A1,458 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) · Cloud	Claude Fable 5.1
Documents & OCR Models	–No public result yet · Cloud	–No public result yet · Cloud	—
Coding Models	A1,742 on LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) · Cloud	A1,754 on LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) · Cloud	Same tier
Image understanding Models	S1,286 on LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	S1,294 on LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Browser & computer agents Models	–No public result yet · Cloud	–No public result yet · Cloud	—
Workflow automation Models	C59.4% on AutomationBench-AA (Artificial Analysis) · Cloud	B64.9% on AutomationBench-AA (Artificial Analysis) · Cloud	GPT-6.1 Sol

A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.

Same benchmark, both results

Benchmark	Claude Fable 5.1	GPT-6.1 Sol	Snapshot
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Composite index over Artificial Analysis' own evaluation suite, higher is better	53 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max, Default Fallback)	52 GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)	18 Oct 2026
AutomationBench-AA (Artificial Analysis) Score: average share of each task's objectives completed across 657 business-workflow tasks in 40 simulated SaaS apps via REST APIs; a task with any guardrail (business-rule) violation scores zero, higher is better	59.4% Claude Fable 5.1 (Max, Default Fallback)	64.9% GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)	19 Oct 2026
LMArena Search Arena (style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on search-grounded answers, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,233 claude-fable-5.1-high	1,250 gpt-6.1-sol-max	13 Oct 2026
LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes, style-controlled default view), higher is better	1,502 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)	1,484 gpt-6.1-sol-max	15 Oct 2026
LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes, creative-writing prompts only, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,485 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)	1,458 gpt-6.1-sol-max	15 Oct 2026
LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on image + text prompts, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,286 claude-fable-5.1-max	1,294 gpt-6.1-sol-max	9 Oct 2026
LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on web-app generation), higher is better	1,742 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)	1,754 GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)	18 Oct 2026
ParseBench (models) Overall: mean of five rule-based dimension scores (tables, charts, content faithfulness, semantic formatting, visual grounding) on ~2,000 human-verified enterprise pages, higher is better	78.9% Anthropic Fable 5.1	70.5% OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol (Reasoning Low)	9 Oct 2026
SWE-Bench Pro V2 (public set, full) Resolve rate on 642 validated long-horizon tasks from 11 copyleft repositories, re-graded on a pristine image under a locked offline protocol, higher is better	99.1% Fable 5.1 (Claude Code) high	96.1% GPT-6.1-Sol (mini-swe-agent) xhigh	19 Oct 2026