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Claude Fable 5vsGrok 4.6

Claude Fable 5 leads 23 of 28 shared benchmarks. Grok 4.6 is 7.5x cheaper per token. Claude Fable 5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
23 – 5
Claude Fable 5 leads
Cheaper per token
Grok 4.6
7.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Fable 5
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · xAI
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-09
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$10 ↗
Output /1M
$50 ↗
Cached /1M
$1
Scores
44 · 11 core
Grok 4.6
xAI · released 2026-08-12
textvision
Context
500K
Max out
—
Input /1M
$2 ↗
Output /1M
$6 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
43 · 9 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Grok 4.6ΔEdge
Reported by both · 28
GPQA Diamond85.9% ↗epoch run94% ↗epoch run-8.1 ptGrok 4.6
LMArena Elo1504.3 ↗1453.8 ↗+50.5Claude Fable 5
APEX-Agents (Mercor)63.6% ↗65.3% ↗-1.7 ptGrok 4.6
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)41% ↗epoch run40% ↗epoch run+1 ptClaude Fable 5
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)69.9% ↗67.5% ↗+2.4 ptClaude Fable 5
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)39.5% ↗epoch run30.5% ↗epoch run+9 ptClaude Fable 5
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)90.2% ↗epoch run31.7% ↗epoch run+58.5 ptClaude Fable 5
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)87% ↗epoch run66% ↗epoch run+21 ptClaude Fable 5
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)47% ↗25.3% ↗+21.7 ptClaude Fable 5
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)35.8% ↗epoch run40% ↗epoch run-4.2 ptGrok 4.6
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)62.2% ↗57% ↗+5.2 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)86% ↗76.8% ↗+9.2 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)80.5% ↗73.9% ↗+6.6 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)75.8% ↗71.9% ↗+3.9 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)90.7% ↗83.7% ↗+7 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)96% ↗92.6% ↗+3.4 ptClaude Fable 5
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)89.7% ↗90.5% ↗-0.8 ptGrok 4.6
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.0821 ↗0.0128 ↗+0.1Claude Fable 5
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1308.8 ↗1263.5 ↗+45.3Claude Fable 5
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1625.3 ↗1619.5 ↗+5.8Claude Fable 5
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)52% ↗epoch run34% ↗epoch run+18 ptClaude Fable 5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)100% ↗epoch run99.2% ↗epoch run+0.8 ptClaude Fable 5
SAGE (Vals AI)51.9% ↗28.9% ↗+23 ptClaude Fable 5
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)81.9% ↗75.9% ↗+6 ptClaude Fable 5
SimpleQA Verified70.7% ↗epoch run49.3% ↗epoch run+21.4 ptClaude Fable 5
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)41.4% ↗17.2% ↗+24.2 ptClaude Fable 5
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)5680.26 ↗9047.03 ↗-3366.8Grok 4.6
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)91.9% ↗67.3% ↗+24.6 ptClaude Fable 5
Only Claude Fable 5 reports · 16
SWE-bench Verified95% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench17.4% ↗not reported——
Blueprint-Bench 238.6% ↗not reported——
CursorBench72.9% ↗not reported——
FrontierCode (Diamond)29.3% ↗not reported——
GDP.pdf29.8% ↗not reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)76.5% ↗not reported——
Legal Agent Benchmark (Harvey's Held-Out Set)13.3% ↗not reported——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)63.9% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OfficeQA Pro57.9% ↗not reported——
OSWorld-Verified85% ↗not reported——
OSWorld-Verified (XLANG)86% ↗not reported——
SWE-Bench Pro80% ↗not reported——
SWE-rebench 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-01 (Nebius)64.5% ↗not reported——
tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra)39.7% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 2.184.3% ↗not reported——
Only Grok 4.6 reports · 10
AA-Briefcasenot reported1577 ↗——
APEX-Agentsnot reported57.5% ↗——
APEX-SWEnot reported56.4% ↗——
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexnot reported61 ↗——
CursorBench 3.2not reported69.9% ↗——
DeepSWE v1.1not reported65.9% ↗——
FrontierCode v1.1 (Extended)not reported61.3% ↗——
GDPVal-AA v2not reported1753 ↗——
Harvey LAB (Vals)not reported15.8% ↗——
Terminal-Bench 3.0not reported26% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Fable 5 minus Grok 4.6 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Fable 5Grok 4.6Edge
Context window1M tokens500K tokensClaude Fable 5
Max output128K tokens——
Input price / 1M$10 ↗$2 ↗Grok 4.6
Output price / 1M$50 ↗$6 ↗Grok 4.6
Cached input / 1M$1 ↗$0.5 ↗Grok 4.6
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$60$8Grok 4.6
Modalitiestext · visiontext · visionTie
Released2026-06-092026-08-12—
Cited benchmark scores4443—
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