# Wes Roth — 'Grok 4.6 is Fable now'

> Wes Roth's newest video takes the position that Grok 4.6 now sits level with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.

- Org: Wes Roth
- Date: 2026-08-13
- Category: video
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB39bHByHuU
- Canonical page: https://ai-tldr.dev/releases/wes-roth-grok-4-6-fable-aug13/

## In short

Wes Roth's 13 August video says Grok 4.6 has closed the gap with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. Artificial Analysis scores Grok 4.6 at 61 on its Intelligence Index, one point behind Claude Fable 5 at 62 and level with GPT-5.6 Sol.

## What it is

'Grok 4.6 is Fable now' is a Wes Roth video uploaded on 13 August 2026. The title points at how close Grok 4.6 has landed to Claude Fable 5, the model at the top of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

## How it works

Artificial Analysis scores Grok 4.6 at 61 on its Intelligence Index, level with GPT-5.6 Sol (max) and one point behind Claude Fable 5 at 62. Grok 4.6 keeps the 500K-token context window of Grok 4.5 and costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with cache hits priced at $0.50 per million.

## Why it matters

A large share of the audience for Grok 4.6 follows model launches through videos like this one rather than benchmark tables, so the framing here shapes how many people read the result. The practical question the video raises is whether a one-point gap on a single index should decide which model you pay for.

## Who it's for

people tracking frontier model rankings

## Links

- [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB39bHByHuU)
- [Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@WesRoth)
- [Grok 4.6 Analysis](https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/grok-4-6-benchmarks-and-analysis)