Claude Fable 5.1 vs Gemini 4 Carbon

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic) against Gemini 4 Carbon (Google DeepMind).

Claude Fable 5.1

Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary Frontier parameters

Full-repository software refactoring, agentic tool workflows, formal verification, and 1.5M-token needle retrieval.

Gemini 4 Carbon

Developed by Google DeepMind · Carbon-Aware Frontier Transformer on TPU v6e parameters

Sub-watt green computing, 62% energy reduction per million tokens, carbon-aware datagrid routing, and eco-tier batch execution discounts.

Metric Claude Fable 5.1 Gemini 4 Carbon
SWE-bench Verified 82.8% 69.2%
MMLU-Pro 92.4% 84.6%
MATH-500 97.9% 91.4%
Context Window 1,500,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $12.00 $0.80
Output Pricing (per 1M) $60.00 $2.40