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Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Claude Fable 5

Gemini 3.8 Flash versus Claude Fable 5 on list price and published Arena rating. Gemini 3.8 Flash Arena 1499 · Claude Fable 5 Arena 1491 Blended list price Gemini 3.8 Flash $3.00 and Claude Fable 5 $40.00 per 1M tokens.

Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogleArena 1499$3.00 / 1M
Gemini 3.8 Flash leads by 8 Arena pointsClaude Fable 5 costs 13.3x more
Claude Fable 5AnthropicArena 1491$40.00 / 1M

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google

Input / 1M$0.75Output / 1M$3.75Arena1499Value1941,000 coding edits$4.50

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Claude Fable 5

Anthropic

Input / 1M$10.00Output / 1M$50.00Arena1491Value1271,000 coding edits$60.00

Open model

Gemini 3.8 Flash leads by 8 Arena points. Claude Fable 5 costs 13.3x more, moving from Gemini 3.8 Flash to Claude Fable 5. The 1,000-edit cost uses a planning assumption of 2,000 input and 800 output tokens, not a measured trace. Share this face-off. The link renders an Open Graph image of the two models.