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Claude Fable 5.2 vs North Micro Vision Instruct

Claude Fable 5.2 leads the LLM Stats Score 61.1 to -5.8.

Anthropic · Cohere · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Fable 5.2 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 61.1 to -5.8, ranking #1 overall.

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

Choose Claude Fable 5.2

  • overall performance matters — it scores 61.1 and ranks #1 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Nov 2026

Choose North Micro Vision Instruct

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

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Fable 5.2
Anthropic
North Micro Vision Instruct
Cohere
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
61.1
#1
-5.8
#403
Reasoning
60.3
#1
-8.3
#402
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$8.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$40.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

3 shared
Index
Claude Fable 5.2
North Micro Vision Instruct
Math
46.8#2
-12.8#353
Vision
47.2#1
-5.3#235
Multimodal
42.6#1
-3.6#191
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

29 reported for Claude Fable 5.2 · 19 for North Micro Vision Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Claude Fable 5.2 and North Micro Vision 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 5.2 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Fable 5.2 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5.2
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Cohere
North Micro Vision Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sun Nov 15 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude Fable 5.2 and North Micro Vision Instruct support multimodal inputs.

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

Claude Fable 5.2

Text
Images
Audio
Video

North Micro Vision Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Fable 5.2 is licensed under a proprietary license, while North Micro Vision Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

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

Claude Fable 5.2

Proprietary

Closed source

North Micro Vision Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Fable 5.2 was released on 2026-11-09, while North Micro Vision Instruct was released on 2026-08-12.

Claude Fable 5.2 is 3 months newer than North Micro Vision Instruct.

Claude Fable 5.2

Nov 9, 2026

6 days ago

2mo newer
North Micro Vision Instruct

Aug 12, 2026

3 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Fable 5.2 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while North Micro Vision Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Claude Fable 5.2's training data extends to 2026-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without North Micro Vision Instruct's cutoff date.

Claude Fable 5.2

Jun 2026

North Micro Vision Instruct

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Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Fable 5.2 and North Micro Vision Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Fable 5.2
✓ Preferred
North Micro Vision Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Fable 5.2 vs North Micro Vision Instruct.

Which is better, Claude Fable 5.2 or North Micro Vision Instruct?

Claude Fable 5.2 leads the LLM Stats Score 61.1 to -5.8. Claude Fable 5.2 is made by Anthropic and North Micro Vision Instruct is made by Cohere. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude Fable 5.2 compare to North Micro Vision Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude Fable 5.2 scores SWE-bench Multilingual: 96.6%, Global-MMLU: 96.0%, MILU: 94.1%, SWE-Bench Pro: 93.0%, Chartography: 91.6%. North Micro Vision Instruct scores DocVQA: 92.1%, ChartQA: 80.8%, OCRBench: 79.2%, AI2D: 77.5%, IFEval: 74.9%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Fable 5.2 and North Micro Vision Instruct?

Claude Fable 5.2 supports 1.0M tokens and North Micro Vision 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 5.2 and North Micro Vision Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (61.1 vs -5.8), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Fable 5.2 and North Micro Vision Instruct?

Claude Fable 5.2 is developed by Anthropic and North Micro Vision Instruct is developed by Cohere.

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