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Claude Fable 5.2 vs GPT-6.1 Terra

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 90 results on 5 sources that measured both models.

AnthropicClaude Fable 5.2 Released 9 Nov 2026 · $8.00 in · $40.00 out
OpenAIGPT-6.1 Terra Released 26 Oct 2026 · $1.00 in · $5.00 out
Claude Fable 5.2 wins 3321 too close to callGPT-6.1 Terra wins 36

Of the 90 results both models have, the better value on each. Results whose reported ranges overlap are too close to call.

Results as of 10 November 2026 (catalogue release 2026-11-10-cad1a1ab581e). See also Anthropic vs OpenAI, every model from both labs.

Claude Fable 5.2 or GPT-6.1 Terra? The short answer

Pick Claude Fable 5.2 if quality matters most: it scores higher (Spring Prompt overall 90 against 79). Pick GPT-6.1 Terra if cost matters more: it costs 25 times less per product listing on CatalogBench.

  • Spring Prompt overall: Claude Fable 5.2 90, GPT-6.1 Terra 79 (out of 100; how the score works).
  • GPT-6.1 Terra is cheaper to run: $0.004 against $0.088 per product listing on CatalogBench (25 times less).
  • Claude Fable 5.2 is newer: released 9 Nov 2026, against 26 Oct 2026 for GPT-6.1 Terra.
  • On our own benchmarks, on the results both models have: Claude Fable 5.2 does better for user surveys and marketing planning.

Head to head

90
Spring Prompt overall
79
$16.00
Price per million tokens, blendedlower is better
$2.00
1,000,000
Context window, tokens
1,050,000

Every fact side by side

Claude Fable 5.2GPT-6.1 Terra
Price per million tokens$8.00 in · $40.00 out$1.00 in · $5.00 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$16.00$2.00
Cheapest host, blended$16.00 (Amazon Bedrock)$2.00 (Azure)
Cost per product listing (CatalogBench)$0.088$0.004
Cached input, per million$0.20 cached input$0.050 cached input
Intelligence Index––
Spring Prompt overall9079
Output speed, tokens a second––
Context window1,000,000 tokens1,050,000 tokens
Released9 Nov 2026 (newer)26 Oct 2026
WeightsClosedClosed
Developer based inthe USthe US

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among the models on sale today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Product listingsTurning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live 5 of 28 4 of 28
Decks from an analysisTurning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is 3 of 28 7 of 28
User surveysPlanning a user survey and reading its results without being misled 1 of 17 6 of 17
Marketing planningPlanning a year of ad spend without overspending 1 of 28 2 of 28
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls not measured 7 of 159
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge not measured 22 of 187
Speed under pressureGood decisions against a real clock (fast chess) 7 of 31 15 of 31

Their slides, side by side

The same brief for both: Manchester store investment review for Hearthside Coffee, an invented company. First slide of each deck from DeckBench.

First slide of Claude Fable 5.2's deck for Hearthside Coffee
Claude Fable 5.2 · deck rating 1,425 · needs work
First slide of GPT-6.1 Terra's deck for Hearthside Coffee
GPT-6.1 Terra · deck rating 1,332 · needs work

Every slide, side by side →

From our research

Every shared result

Each model's best result on every measure both have, grouped by benchmark, with the setting that produced it. Under each measure, every model that benchmark has measured is a grey tick, best to the right, so you can see where the two sit in the field. The headline measures of each benchmark come first; the rest are under "Show all". Green marks the better value; where a source reports ranges that overlap, neither is marked.

MeasureClaude Fable 5.2GPT-6.1 Terra
BulletBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results
Cost per game · Blitz 3+2US dollars, lower is better 17 · 7 of 17 measured $0.52 $0.0706
Cost per game · Bullet 60sUS dollars, lower is better 36 · 26 of 37 measured $0.0800low reasoning $0.0172low reasoning
Ladder Elo · Bullet 60sladder Elo, higher is better 15 · 24 of 37 measured 491 358low reasoning
CatalogBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results
Cost per productUS dollars, lower is better 28 · 8 of 29 measured $0.0875 $0.0036
Reliably publish-ready% of products, higher is better 3 · 6 of 28 measured 71.4% 64.3%
Reliably publish-ready · sales brief% of products, higher is better 7 · 2 of 28 measured 44.6% 67.9%
DeckBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results
Cost per deckUS dollars, lower is better 29 · 15 of 29 measured $1.40 $0.0672
Deck ratingrating, higher is betterThe rating weighs each win by how strong the other deck was; the win rate counts wins against whichever decks a model happened to meet, so the two can disagree. 3 · 7 of 29 measured 1,425 1,332
Accurate decks% of tasks, higher is better 5 · 1 of 29 measured 83.3% 100.0%
ROASBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results
Overall scorescore out of 100, higher is better 1 · 2 of 29 measured 61.3 58.4
Audience scorescore out of 100, higher is better 4 · 1 of 29 measured 68.5 69.4
Business scorescore out of 100, higher is better 1 · 2 of 29 measured 72.3 59.1
SurveyBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results
Analysis ratingrating, higher is betterThe rating weighs each win by how strong the other analysis was; the win rate counts wins against whichever analyses a model happened to meet, so the two can disagree. 1 · 6 of 18 measured 1,683 1,251
Cost per taskUS dollars, lower is better 18 · 7 of 18 measured $1.51 $0.0569
Analysis scorepoints of 100, higher is better 1 · 5 of 18 measured 98.0 91.6
Show all 90 results (75 more)
MeasureClaude Fable 5.2GPT-6.1 Terra
BulletBench measured by Spring Prompt · 7 results
Games lost on time · Blitz 3+2% of games, lower is better 13 · 8 of 17 measured 50.0% 25.0%
Games lost on time · Bullet 60s% of games, lower is better 27 · 29 of 37 measured 62.5% 75.0%low reasoning
Invalid moves · Blitz 3+2% of moves, lower is better 1 · 1 of 17 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Invalid moves · Bullet 60s% of moves, lower is better 1 · 1 of 37 measured 0.0% 0.0%low reasoning
Ladder Elo · Blitz 3+2ladder Elo, higher is better 3 · 7 of 17 measured 1,100 683
Median move time · Blitz 3+2milliseconds, lower is better 9 · 7 of 17 measured 4.9 s 3.7 s
Median move time · Bullet 60smilliseconds, lower is better 32 · 30 of 37 measured 3.0 slow reasoning 2.8 slow reasoning
CatalogBench measured by Spring Prompt · 29 results
Channel compliance% of products, higher is better 1 · 28 of 29 measured 100.0% 98.2%
Channel rules broken% of products, lower is better 1 · 26 of 29 measured 0.0% 1.8%
Channel rules broken · sales brief% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 29 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Claims to check% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 27 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Claims to check · sales brief% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 27 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Conflicts caught% of conflicts, higher is better 1 · 1 of 29 measured 100.0% 100.0%
Content quality% of checks, higher is better 2 · 10 of 29 measured 98.6% 97.7%
Content quality · sales brief% of checks, higher is better 3 · 6 of 29 measured 98.6% 98.3%
Decision accuracy% of decisions, higher is better 2 · 6 of 29 measured 98.7% 98.1%
Failed outputs% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 29 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Failed outputs · sales brief% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 29 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Field accuracy% of missing fields, higher is better 1 · 7 of 29 measured 98.1% 94.4%
Invented values% of filled values, lower is better 18 · 12 of 29 measured 1.9% 1.5%
Missing UK information% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 29 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Missing UK information · sales brief% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 29 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Not findable% of products, lower is better 5 · 26 of 29 measured 1.8% 10.7%
Not findable · sales brief% of products, lower is better 5 · 28 of 29 measured 1.8% 13.7%
Output tokens per producttokens, lower is better 3 · 1 of 7 measured 1,442 457
Publish-ready listings% of products, higher is better 1 · 7 of 29 measured 81.0% 74.4%
Publish-ready listings · sales brief% of products, higher is better 8 · 3 of 29 measured 66.1% 74.4%
Time per productseconds, lower is better 16 · 9 of 29 measured 17.5 10.1
Unsupported claimsclaims per product, lower is better 7 · 4 of 29 measured 0.23 0.03
Unsupported claims% of products, lower is better 6 · 3 of 29 measured 6.0% 0.6%
Unsupported claims · sales briefclaims per product, lower is better 8 · 3 of 29 measured 0.46 0.09
Unsupported claims · sales brief% of products, lower is better 10 · 1 of 29 measured 23.8% 1.8%
Wrong attributes% of products, lower is better 1 · 6 of 29 measured 9.5% 14.9%
Wrong attributes · sales brief% of products, lower is better 3 · 8 of 29 measured 13.1% 14.9%
Wrong category or variant% of products, lower is better 5 · 5 of 29 measured 1.8% 1.8%
Wrong category or variant · sales brief% of products, lower is better 5 · 5 of 29 measured 1.8% 1.8%
DeckBench measured by Spring Prompt · 15 results
Caveat dropped% of tasks, lower is better 14 · 1 of 29 measured 16.7% 0.0%
Clean layout% of tasks, higher is better 3 · 3 of 29 measured 83.3% 83.3%
Design quality% of the maximum, higher is better 8 · 5 of 29 measured 77.8% 80.8%
Draft figure quoted% of tasks, lower is better 12 · 1 of 29 measured 16.7% 0.0%
Findings missing% of tasks, lower is better 20 · 1 of 29 measured 16.7% 0.0%
Head-to-head win rate% of comparisons, higher is betterThe rating weighs each win by how strong the other deck was; the win rate counts wins against whichever decks a model happened to meet, so the two can disagree. 6 · 19 of 29 measured 78.0% 48.3%
Layout defects% of tasks, lower is better 3 · 3 of 29 measured 16.7% 16.7%
Misleading metric used% of tasks, lower is better 26 · 1 of 29 measured 16.7% 0.0%
Output tokens per decktokens, lower is better 6 · 1 of 8 measured 33,285 12,086
Presentable decks% of tasks, higher is better 1 · 3 of 29 measured 83.3% 50.0%
Recommendation late or wrong% of tasks, lower is better 12 · 1 of 29 measured 16.7% 0.0%
Slides needing work% of tasks, lower is better 3 · 9 of 29 measured 16.7% 33.3%
Time per deckseconds, lower is better 23 · 16 of 29 measured 285 135
Unsupported claims% of tasks, lower is better 15 · 1 of 29 measured 16.7% 0.0%
Unsupported numbers% of tasks, lower is better 24 · 1 of 29 measured 16.7% 0.0%
ROASBench measured by Spring Prompt · 6 results
Consistency scorescore out of 100, higher is better 11 · 1 of 29 measured 31.6 48.8
Contribution profitsimulated US dollars, higher is better 1 · 7 of 29 measured $1,032,894 $701,059
Cost of a runUS dollars, lower is better 28 · 10 of 29 measured $1.76 $0.11
Months over budgetmonths of 12, lower is better 1 · 1 of 29 measured 0 0
Planning scorescore out of 100, higher is better 26 · 7 of 29 measured 54.2 55.0
Return on ad spendprofit per $1 spent, higher is better 1 · 3 of 29 measured $0.96 $0.71
SurveyBench measured by Spring Prompt · 18 results
Head-to-head win rate% of comparisons, higher is betterThe rating weighs each win by how strong the other analysis was; the win rate counts wins against whichever analyses a model happened to meet, so the two can disagree. 1 · 7 of 18 measured 86.4% 57.9%
Leading or double-barrelled questions% of tasks, lower is better 6 · 3 of 18 measured 22.2% 11.1%
Mistaken next steps% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 5 of 18 measured 0.0% 11.1%
Numbers right% of answers, higher is better 1 · 1 of 18 measured 100.0% 100.0%
Objectives unanswerable% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 9 of 18 measured 0.0% 11.1%
Output tokens per tasktokens, lower is better 4 · 1 of 8 measured 33,902 8,112
Precision ignored% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 1 of 18 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Research scorepoints of 100, higher is better 1 · 5 of 18 measured 97.6 92.2
Sound research% of tasks, higher is better 3 · 4 of 18 measured 44.4% 33.3%
Stakeholder's view presumed% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 8 of 18 measured 0.0% 11.1%
Survey plan scorepoints of 100, higher is better 4 · 6 of 18 measured 96.9 93.6
Survey structure% of tasks, lower is better 3 · 9 of 18 measured 11.1% 22.2%
Time per taskseconds, lower is better 14 · 5 of 18 measured 337 92.1
Traps handled% of traps, higher is better 2 · 6 of 18 measured 98.6% 94.2%
Traps missed% of tasks, lower is better 2 · 4 of 18 measured 11.1% 33.3%
Unsupported findings% of tasks, lower is better 3 · 1 of 18 measured 11.1% 0.0%
Wrong numbers% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 1 of 18 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Wrong recommendation% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 4 of 18 measured 0.0% 11.1%

Quick answers

Is Claude Fable 5.2 better than GPT-6.1 Terra?

Pick Claude Fable 5.2 if quality matters most: it scores higher (Spring Prompt overall 90 against 79). Pick GPT-6.1 Terra if cost matters more: it costs 25 times less per product listing on CatalogBench.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.2 or GPT-6.1 Terra?

GPT-6.1 Terra is cheaper to run: $0.004 against $0.088 per product listing on CatalogBench (25 times less).

Which is better for product listings, Claude Fable 5.2 or GPT-6.1 Terra?

GPT-6.1 Terra ranks 4 of 28 models on sale for turning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live, against 5 for Claude Fable 5.2.

Which is better for decks from an analysis, Claude Fable 5.2 or GPT-6.1 Terra?

Claude Fable 5.2 ranks 3 of 28 models on sale for turning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is, against 7 for GPT-6.1 Terra.

Which is better for user surveys, Claude Fable 5.2 or GPT-6.1 Terra?

Claude Fable 5.2 ranks 1 of 17 models on sale for planning a user survey and reading its results without being misled, against 6 for GPT-6.1 Terra.

Which is better for marketing planning, Claude Fable 5.2 or GPT-6.1 Terra?

Claude Fable 5.2 ranks 1 of 28 models on sale for planning a year of ad spend without overspending, against 2 for GPT-6.1 Terra.

Which is better for speed under pressure, Claude Fable 5.2 or GPT-6.1 Terra?

Claude Fable 5.2 ranks 7 of 31 models on sale for good decisions against a real clock (fast chess), against 15 for GPT-6.1 Terra.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5.2 or GPT-6.1 Terra?

GPT-6.1 Terra: 1,050,000 tokens, against 1,000,000 for Claude Fable 5.2.

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