Claude Fable 5.1 vs Visual Jev (Qwen3-VL 8B Backbone)

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic) against Visual Jev (Qwen3-VL 8B Backbone) (Independent AI Systems Lab (Guanxu Yu & Yuhang Yao)).

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.

Visual Jev (Qwen3-VL 8B Backbone)

Developed by Independent AI Systems Lab (Guanxu Yu & Yuhang Yao) · 8.2 Billion Vision-Language Parameters parameters

Sub-20ms multi-query image verification, automated rejection sampling in generative diffusion pipelines (FLUX / SD3), robotics perception routing, and high-frequency visual software inspection.

Metric Claude Fable 5.1 Visual Jev (Qwen3-VL 8B Backbone)
SWE-bench Verified 82.8% 62.1%
MMLU-Pro 92.4% 86.4%
MATH-500 97.9% 89.2%
Context Window 1,500,000 tokens 32,768 tokens (Visual prefix + batched question suffixes)
Input Pricing (per 1M) $12.00 $0.05
Output Pricing (per 1M) $60.00 $0.10