Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent vs Claude Fable 5.1

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Language Models · verified 2 Sept 2026

Grok 4.20 Multi-AgentxAIcurrent

Claude Fable 5.1Anthropiccurrent

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Specification	Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent	Claude Fable 5.1
Summary	Multi-agent orchestration SKU.	Same price as Fable 5, and cache reads cost a quarter of what they did.
Context	1M	1M
Input ($/Mtok)	$1.25	$10
Output ($/Mtok)	$2.5	$50
Licence	Proprietary	Proprietary
Max output	—	128K
Parameters	—	Not published
Released	—	1 Sep 2026
Model ID	grok-4.20-multi-agent-0309	claude-fable-5-1
Category	Language Models	Language Models
Official	xAI ↗	—

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Multi-agent orchestration SKU.

Best for agent swarms.

Matches or beats Fable 5 at low and medium effort, and pulls clear at high effort
Cache reads cut to 25% of the old price, so re-reading a long context got much cheaper
Identical model to Mythos 5.1 underneath; the difference is the safeguards

Best for coding and long-running work.