Grok 4.6 matched Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. Downloadable models set that price.
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Grok 4.6, launched by SpaceXAI on Wednesday, has matched Fable 5 Max in intelligence, speed, and cost, according to Elon Musk's recent post on X. The three frontier models were released within 24 hours, all emphasizing affordability due to assumed capabilities. Grok 4.6 runs on the same 1.5 trillion parameters as its predecessor, with improvements achieved through post-training.
Its API pricing remained unchanged at $2 per million tokens, with $6 for output tokens. DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813, released on Thursday, is available for free download with a lower API rate of $0.66 per million input tokens and $1.98 per million output tokens off-peak. Qwen 3.8-Max from Alibaba, priced at $2.4T parameters and 95B active, is also self-hosted.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and Claude Fable 5, both priced at $10 and $50 per million input and output tokens respectively, are also available for download. Grok 4.6 demonstrated significant improvement, scoring 61 on the Intelligence Index, just ahead of Fable 5 Max at 61. In terms of cost efficiency, Grok 4.6 is 80% cheaper on input tokens and 88% cheaper on output tokens than Fable 5 Max, making it "Pareto dominant."
This shift in the AI market towards cheaper models could lead to increased spending on specialized tasks, as companies seek to maximize the value of these models.
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