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title: "Humansand's Ampersand Coding AI Matches Fable 5.1 at 70% Lower Cost"
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summary: "The multi-agent version of Humansand's Ampersand AI assistant scored 92.2% on the SWE-bench Pro v2 HARD-51 benchmark, matching the results of competitors Fable 5.1 and Gemini 4 Argon. The company said the model achieves this parity without additional coding-specific training and is 70% cheaper to run than Fable 5.1. Ampersand also recorded a 77.9% score on the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark, placing it ahead of Grok-4.7 and Deepseek-v4-pro."
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# Humansand's Ampersand Coding AI Matches Fable 5\.1 at 70% Lower Cost

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**Published:** 2026-11-05T20:44:01.000Z
**Category:** Tools
**Topics:** coding, devtools

## Summary

The multi\-agent version of Humansand's Ampersand AI assistant scored 92\.2% on the SWE\-bench Pro v2 HARD\-51 benchmark, matching the results of competitors Fable 5\.1 and Gemini 4 Argon\. The company said the model achieves this parity without additional coding\-specific training and is 70% cheaper to run than Fable 5\.1\. Ampersand also recorded a 77\.9% score on the DeepSWE v1\.1 benchmark, placing it ahead of Grok\-4\.7 and Deepseek\-v4\-pro\.

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