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Claude Fable 5.1 vs Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Claude Fable 5.1 leads the LLM Stats Score 56.8 to 8.6.

Anthropic · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Fable 5.1 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 56.8 to 8.6, ranking #2 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude Fable 5.1

  • overall performance matters — it scores 56.8 and ranks #2 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
56.8
#2
8.6
#265
Reasoning
53.9
#5
8.0
#267
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$10.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$50.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude Fable 5.1
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Vision
41.5#2
10.6#117
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

7 reported for Claude Fable 5.1 · 15 for Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Fable 5.1 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Fable 5.1 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5.1
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Fri Sep 04 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Claude Fable 5.1

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Fable 5.1 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude Fable 5.1

Proprietary

Closed source

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Fable 5.1 was released on 2026-09-01, while Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct was released on 2025-06-20.

Claude Fable 5.1 is 15 months newer than Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct.

Claude Fable 5.1

Sep 1, 2026

3 days ago

1.2yr newer
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Jun 20, 2025

1.2 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-10-01, while Claude Fable 5.1's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct's training data extends to 2023-10-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude Fable 5.1's cutoff date.

Claude Fable 5.1

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Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Oct 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Fable 5.1
✓ Preferred
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Fable 5.1 vs Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct.

Which is better, Claude Fable 5.1 or Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct?

Claude Fable 5.1 leads the LLM Stats Score 56.8 to 8.6. Claude Fable 5.1 is made by Anthropic and Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct is made by Mistral AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude Fable 5.1 compare to Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude Fable 5.1 scores OSWorld 2.0: 77.9%, CursorBench v3.2: 73.4%, Humanity's Last Exam: 65.0%, GDPval-AA: 61.8%, Terminal-Bench 4.0: 55.8%. Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct scores DocVQA: 94.9%, AI2D: 92.9%, HumanEval Plus: 92.9%, ChartQA: 87.4%, IF: 84.8%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct?

Claude Fable 5.1 supports 1.0M tokens and Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (56.8 vs 8.6), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Fable 5.1 and Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct?

Claude Fable 5.1 is developed by Anthropic and Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct is developed by Mistral AI.

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