Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 and Grok 4.6?

Grok 4.6 has the lowest input price. Per 1M input tokens: Claude Fable 5 from $10.00 and Grok 4.6 from $2.00.

Which has the larger context window, Claude Fable 5 and Grok 4.6?

Claude Fable 5 has the largest context window: Claude Fable 5 1,000,000 tokens and Grok 4.6 500,000 tokens.

Which is better for coding, Claude Fable 5 and Grok 4.6?

Grok 4.6 scores highest on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index: Claude Fable 5 76.5 and Grok 4.6 76.8.

Which is smarter, Claude Fable 5 and Grok 4.6?

Claude Fable 5 scores highest on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: Claude Fable 5 49.6 and Grok 4.6 44.3.

Can I switch between Claude Fable 5 and Grok 4.6 without changing my code?

Yes. All of them are served through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching is a change of the model parameter (anthropic/claude-fable-5, x-ai/grok-4.6).

Claude Fable 5 vs Grok 4.6

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropicanthropic/claude-fable-5

Grok 4.6 xAIx-ai/grok-4.6

Creator

Anthropic

xAI

Released

Jun 9, 2026

Aug 12, 2026

Context window

500K

Max output

128K

500K

Input / 1MLowest provider price

$10.00

$2.00

Output / 1MLowest provider price

$50.00

$6.00

Providers

IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index

49.6

44.3

CodingArtificial Analysis index

76.5

76.8

LatencyMedian time to first token

14s

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ThroughputMedian tokens per second

<1 t/s

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Accepts

Text, Image, Files

Text, Image

Produces

Text

Tool calling

Yes

Structured output

Yes

Reasoning

Yes

Claude Fable 5 vs Grok 4.6: summary

Claude Fable 5 and Grok 4.6 are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

Claude Fable 5, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window, costs $10.00/1M input and $50.00/1M output tokens and scores 49.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Grok 4.6, from xAI, has a 500,000-token context window, costs $2.00/1M input and $6.00/1M output tokens and scores 44.3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Grok 4.6 is the cheapest on input, 5× cheaper than the next model, Claude Fable 5 has the largest context window, Claude Fable 5 scores highest for intelligence and Grok 4.6 leads on coding.

Switch with one line

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-fable-5", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="x-ai/grok-4.6", messages=[...])

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