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Claude Fable 5 vs Grok 4.6

Compare Claude Fable 5 from Anthropic and Grok 4.6 from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Anthropic logo
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Anthropic's most capable widely released model, for the most demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work(This model is extremely expensive and is not recommended for casual use.)

Input$11 /M
Output$55 /M
Cache read$1.1 /M
Grok logo
Grok 4.6
Grok · text, image → text

Grok 4.6 is xAI’s (SpaceXAI) flagship multimodal reasoning model for coding, long-running agents, knowledge work, and interactive application development. It supports image understanding, a 500K context window, tool calling, and structured outputs. Compared with Grok 4.5, it offers stronger multi-step execution, self-verification, coding, and visual project generation.

Input$2 /M
Output$6 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Fable 5
Grok 4.6
Input /M
$11
$2
Output /M
$55
$6
Cache read /M
$1.1
$0.5
Context length
1,000,000
500,000
Max output
128,000
500,000
Time to First Token
2.4 s
3.9 s
Throughput
68.1 tok/s
14.5 tok/s
Modalities
textimagepdf
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
June 9, 2026
August 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
claude-fable-5grok-4.6
1400146015201580
Overall
14611507
Coding
15111551
Math
14261529
Hard prompts
14841533
Instruction following
14581512
Multi-turn
14461515
Creative writing
14591504
Longer query
14781522
Chinese
15401554
English
14601513
WebDev Arena
claude-fable-5grok-4.6
1520158016401700
Overall
16241628
React
16331635
HTML
16171664
Gaming
16791701
Simulations
16331677
Data analytics
15531574

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Grok 4.6
$210 /mo
Claude Fable 5
$1,485 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Fable 5, Grok 4.6?

Grok 4.6: $6/M output tokens; Claude Fable 5: $55/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Claude Fable 5: 1551; Grok 4.6: 1511 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Claude Fable 5: 2.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Claude Fable 5 accepts 1,000,000 and Grok 4.6 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Fable 5 and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.6.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Fable 5 at 68.1 tok/s and Grok 4.6 at 14.5 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Fable 5 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Grok 4.6 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.

Can I call Claude Fable 5 and Grok 4.6 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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