Claude Fable 5.1 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) vs Llama 4 Maverick

Which is better for the money: Claude Fable 5.1 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) by Anthropic or Llama 4 Maverick by Meta? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.

Trade-off

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

Intelligence: 53.20
Total cost: $9063

MetaLlama 4 MaverickOff the frontier

Intelligence: 9.30
Total cost: $44.0

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Claude Fable 5.1 (Xhigh, Default Fallba… scores 43.9 points higher (53.2 vs 9.3) but costs 206× as much to run the benchmark ($9063 vs $44.0; flagship vs budget cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Claude Fable 5.1 (Xhigh, Default Fallba… when you need intelligence above 9.3, and Llama 4 Maverick when 9.3 is enough.

Metric	Claude Fable 5.1 (Xhigh, Default Fallback)	Llama 4 Maverick	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	53.2	9.3	−82.5% Llama 4 Maverick is 82.5% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$9,063.11	$43.98	−99.5% Llama 4 Maverick is 99.5% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	111.44s	10.69s	−90.4% Llama 4 Maverick is 90.4% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$10.0 / $50.0	$0.25 / $0.92
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Llama 4 Maverick vs Claude Fable 5.1 (Xhigh, Default Fallback): 82.5% less intelligence, 99.5% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 90.4% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Claude Fable 5.1 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) scores 57.60 for $8708.
Llama 4 Maverick is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.

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