Claude Fable 5.1 (Medium, Default Fallback) vs Mistral Large 4 Preview

Which is better for the money: Claude Fable 5.1 (Medium, Default Fallback) by Anthropic or Mistral Large 4 Preview by Mistral? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

AnthropicClaude Fable 5.1 (Medium, Default Fallback)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 48.90
Total cost: $3983

MistralMistral Large 4 PreviewOff the frontier

Intelligence: 38.40
Total cost: $1608

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Claude Fable 5.1 (Medium, Default Fallb… scores 10.5 points higher (48.9 vs 38.4) but costs 2.5× as much to run the benchmark ($3983 vs $1608; flagship vs premium cost classes). Pick Claude Fable 5.1 (Medium, Default Fallb… when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Mistral Large 4 Preview.

Metric	Claude Fable 5.1 (Medium, Default Fallback)	Mistral Large 4 Preview	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	48.9	38.4	−21.5% Mistral Large 4 Previ… is 21.5% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$3,983.28	$1,607.86	−59.6% Mistral Large 4 Previ… is 59.6% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	14.35s	24.31s	+69.4% Mistral Large 4 Previ… is 69.4% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$10.0 / $50.0	$1.36 / $4.18
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

Mistral Large 4 Preview vs Claude Fable 5.1 (Medium, Default Fallback): 21.5% less intelligence, 59.6% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 69.4% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Claude Fable 5.1 (Medium, Default Fallback) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55.10 for $3117.
Mistral Large 4 Preview is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.

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