Grok 4.5 vs Claude Fable 5.1

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Language Models · verified 2 Sept 2026

Grok 4.5xAIcurrent

Claude Fable 5.1Anthropiccurrent

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Specification	Grok 4.5	Claude Fable 5.1
Summary	Opus-class performance at lower cost.	Same price as Fable 5, and cache reads cost a quarter of what they did.
Context	500K	1M
Input ($/Mtok)	$2	$10
Output ($/Mtok)	$6	$50
Licence	Proprietary	Proprietary
Max output	—	128K
Parameters	—	Not published
Released	—	1 Sep 2026
Model ID	grok-4.5	claude-fable-5-1
Category	Language Models	Language Models
Official	xAI ↗	—

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Opus-class performance at lower cost.

Best for value.

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.