benchmark
Coding benchmark where Grok 4.6 scored 69.9% on v3.2 against Fable 5 Max at 70.5%.
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Claude Opus 5.5 matched Fable 5.1 on every hidden test in two New Stack coding trials, at $0.75 and $1.42 per run against $1.50 and $1.96. It needed more tokens and more minutes to get there, so the saving holds only for tasks that resemble these.
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Grok 4.7 arrived on Monday after five walked-back timelines, with 40% more parameters and Grok 4.6's list price intact. Cursor's own cost chart still puts its price per task above GPT-6 Astra and Claude Sonnet 5.
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xAI built Grok 4.7 on a larger base model with a longer reinforcement-learning run and kept the API at Grok 4.6's rates. The open question for buyers is how many tokens the longer runs burn.
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Anthropic held the price on Claude Opus 4.8, cut fast mode to a third of its previous cost, and handed users an effort dial. That combination is what gets agents into engineering budgets.
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Claude Opus 5 is pitched as near-frontier at half the cost. The cost multiple moves with the workload, and every figure on offer is the vendor's own.
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Grok 4.6, Qwen3.8-Max and DeepSeek V4-Pro shipped inside about 24 hours, and two of the three came with downloadable weights. The benchmarks existed to justify a cheaper invoice.
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