# Claude Fable 5 vs Grok 4 0709

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Grok 4 0709 in 5 of 6 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Long context, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

Claude Fable 5: $20 per 1M blended tokens.

Grok 4 0709: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Claude Fable 5: closed weights.

Grok 4 0709: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Grok 4 0709 in General LLM at #3 against #137.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Grok 4 0709 in Reasoning at #3 against #144.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4 0709 leads Claude Fable 5 in Science at #51 against #56.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Grok 4 0709 in Long context at #3 against #140.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Grok 4 0709 in Factuality at #7 against #123.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 leads Grok 4 0709 in Abstraction (ARC) at #1 against #33.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Fable 5 is near state of the art, rank #3 in General LLM (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4 0709 is ranked #33 in Abstraction (ARC) (since Oct 15, 2026; sources ARC-AGI; methodology v1.0).