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Claude Fable 5.1 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Claude Fable 5.1 leads the LLM Stats Score 57.0 to 14.6.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Fable 5.1 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 57.0 to 14.6, ranking #1 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 57.0 and ranks #1 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Qwen2-VL-72B-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
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
57.0
#1
14.6
#223
Reasoning
54.5
#4
11.9
#238
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
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Vision
40.8#1
11.2#111
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

7 reported for Claude Fable 5.1 · 15 for Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Claude Fable 5.1 and Qwen2-VL-72B-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
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Thu Sep 03 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude Fable 5.1 and Qwen2-VL-72B-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

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Fable 5.1 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

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

Claude Fable 5.1

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Fable 5.1 was released on 2026-09-01, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

Claude Fable 5.1 is 24 months newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Claude Fable 5.1

Sep 1, 2026

1 days ago

2.0yr newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

2.0 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while Claude Fable 5.1's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct's training data extends to 2023-06-30, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude Fable 5.1's cutoff date.

Claude Fable 5.1

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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Fable 5.1 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Fable 5.1
✓ Preferred
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Fable 5.1 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, Claude Fable 5.1 or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Claude Fable 5.1 leads the LLM Stats Score 57.0 to 14.6. Claude Fable 5.1 is made by Anthropic and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. 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 Qwen2-VL-72B-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%. Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct scores DocVQAtest: 96.5%, VCR_en_easy: 91.9%, ChartQA: 88.3%, OCRBench: 87.7%, MMBench: 86.5%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Fable 5.1 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Claude Fable 5.1 supports 1.0M tokens and Qwen2-VL-72B-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 Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (57.0 vs 14.6), licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Fable 5.1 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Claude Fable 5.1 is developed by Anthropic and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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