Claude Fable 5.2 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Release Comparison

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
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Comparison of the Claude Fable 5.2 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 releases: 5 and 3 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 8 models.

For intelligence, Claude Fable 5.2 scores highest: Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) at 65, against DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) at 33 for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017.
For time per task, Claude Fable 5.2 is fastest: Claude Fable 5.2 (Low, Default Fallback) at 6.5 min, against DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) at 8.4 min for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017.
For cost per task, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is cheapest: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) at $0.43, against Claude Fable 5.2 (Low, Default Fallback) at $3.10 for Claude Fable 5.2.

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Releases compared


	Claude Fable 5.2 (max)	Claude Fable 5.2 (xhigh)	Claude Fable 5.2 (high)	Claude Fable 5.2 (medium)	Claude Fable 5.2 (low)	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max)	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (high)	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (non-reasoning)
Intelligence Index	65	62	62	56	54	33	29	19
Finance & Accounting	65	63	63	60	58	42	39	37
Strategy & Ops	67	65	64	62	61	49	48	40
Legal	63	62	60	58	57	38	34	32
Healthcare & Medical	--	--	--	--	--	41	--	--
Engineering	73	70	70	65	62	38	34	25
Economics	67	64	63	60	58	38	35	32
AA-Briefcase v1.1	1785	1738	1677	1622	1563	1570	1416	1425
AutomationBench-AA	76.4%	74.2%	71.4%	68.8%	68.0%	66.6%	68.5%	48.8%
Terminal-Bench 4.0	59.6%	61.6%	59.6%	55.1%	54.5%	33.8%	28.8%	9.1%
FrontierCode 2.0	48.8%	47.6%	49.1%	41.3%	38.4%	28.5%	16.8%	6.1%
AA-Omniscience v1.1	67	65	64	64	63	1	2	2
GDP.pdf	24.2%	21.4%	21.8%	23.8%	26.8%	17.2%	14.2%	4.4%
HLE-Diamond	80.2%	75.8%	73.8%	66.3%	60.8%	25.3%	20.8%	7.1%
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)	76.5%	73.5%	73.0%	61.5%	60.0%	25.0%	27.5%	1.0%
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1	73.3%	67.6%	70.0%	60.5%	53.8%	12.9%	10.5%	2.4%

Cost per TaskUSD	$26.54	$14.83	$9.08	$3.80	$3.10	$0.60	$0.46	$0.43
Input PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$8.00	$8.00	$8.00	$8.00	$8.00	$0.30	$0.30	$0.30
Output PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$40.00	$40.00	$40.00	$40.00	$40.00	$1.20	$1.20	$1.20
Cache Hit PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	$0.006	$0.006	$0.006
Cache Write PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	--	--	--

Time per TaskMinutes	45.0	26.3	17.7	8.3	6.5	16.0	12.5	8.4
Output Speedtok/s	101	103	92	87	91	145	147	130
Time to First Answer Tokens	171.16	75.13	31.81	12.22	6.54	51.19	23.74	1.33
Time to First Tokens	171.16	75.13	31.81	12.22	6.54	1.37	1.33	1.33
End-to-End TimeMean of Single-Request Workloads (s)	--	131.10	124.06	47.49	80.31	103.11	47.93	15.61

Context Window	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M
Creator	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic	DeepSeek	DeepSeek	DeepSeek
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Open	Open	Open
Input Modality	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image
Output Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text
Providers						+19		+3

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Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Time per Task

Inference time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Claude Fable 5.2

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Pareto line

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AutomationBench-AA

Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

No publicly available API

Speed & Latency

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Output tokens divided by end-to-end output speed (minutes per Intelligence Index task) · Speed at the model's own endpoint or the median across providers · Lower is better

No publicly available API

The weighted average time (minutes) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task: output tokens per task divided by output speed, weighted by each benchmark's weight in the Intelligence Index.

Speed and latency metrics average each endpoint's runs over the past 5 days, and the error rate pools them. We run the benchmark every 6 hours, and endpoints of deprecated models every 18 hours.

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AutomationBench-AA, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, AutomationBench-AA, HLE-Diamond · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes

Each axis is one of 8 personality indexes: the mean of its traits’ Elo z-scores, percentile ranked from 1 to 100 across all models evaluated in the benchmark

Claude Fable 5.2 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Time per Task

Cost per Task

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Time Period

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes