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Claude Fable 5.2 vs Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Claude Fable 5.2: 86.5% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#3 of 68 models). We have not run Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score.

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Claude Fable 5.2 vs Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct Comparison Table

Evals updated November 10, 2026Pricing updated November 11, 2026

PropertyClaude Fable 5.2Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
OrganizationAnthropicQwen
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateNov 2026Jan 2025
Context Window1.0M33K
ParametersUnknown7B
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termsfree for commercial use
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$8.00No published price
Output $/1M$40.00No published price
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoSupported
ClassificationDemoSupported
Object DetectionDemoSupported
OCRDemoSupported
Visual Question AnsweringDemoSupported
Both support 5 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
86.5%
Not evaluated
Avg cost / sample$0.031–
Avg speed / sample9.33s–
By task
Object Detection (low)
81.6%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.2 to 81.9
$0.048
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Object Detection (high)
83.3%
±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.8 to 83.7
$0.055
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Counting (low)
86.5%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.5 to 86.5
$0.015
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Counting (high)
92.8%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.9 to 94.6
$0.021
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Identification (low)
96.9%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9
$0.011
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Identification (high)
94.8%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 96.9
$0.012
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OCR (low)
79.5%
$0.030
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by category
Single value
64.8%
Transcription
94.7%
Structured JSON
92.8%
Text localization
74.5%
OCR (high)
84.8%
$0.043
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by category
Single value
77.4%
Transcription
97.9%
Structured JSON
94.1%
Text localization
72.9%
Reasoning (low)
88.1%
±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.8 to 89.4
$0.016
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Reasoning (high)
92.0%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.4 to 93.4
$0.024
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Claude Fable 5.2 vs Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct: Overview

Claude Fable 5.2

Claude Fable 5.2 is a proprietary multimodal model from Anthropic, released on November 9, 2026. It accepts text and images and produces text, with a one million token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens. Adaptive thinking is always enabled, with an effort setting that controls reasoning. Anthropic positions Fable for demanding reasoning and long-running technical work, including coding and analysis of visual inputs.

Fable 5.2 succeeds Fable 5.1. Anthropic reports improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision, with output generation up to 30% faster than its predecessor. Fable and Mythos 5.2 share an underlying model, with additional cybersecurity and biology safeguards applied to Fable. Model weights are not publicly released.

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion parameter vision-language model from Alibaba’s QwenLM team, released on January 26, 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license. It is the instruction-tuned variant of the 7B scale in the Qwen2.5-VL family, designed to process multimodal inputs such as text, images, charts, documents, and video. The model enables structured outputs—including JSON for structured content and bounding boxes for visual localization. Weights are publicly available on Hugging Face and GitHub, making it suitable for both research and applied multimodal use.

Frequently Asked Questions

Claude Fable 5.2 is released under Proprietary, while Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct uses Apache 2.0. In practice: Claude Fable 5.2: commercial use per vendor terms; Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct: free for commercial use. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.

Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for image captioning and OCR in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.