{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "claude-mythos-5-2", "name": "Claude Mythos 5.2", "vendor": "Anthropic", "vendorUrl": "https://www.anthropic.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Claude Mythos 5.2 is the same model as Claude Fable 5.2 without Fable's stronger cyber and biology safeguards, for organisations Anthropic verifies, with a 1M-token context, text and images in, at $8 and $40 per million tokens.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-mythos-5-2", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-mythos-5-2.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-mythos-5-2.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/claude-mythos-5-2.json", "dns": "claude-mythos-5-2.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Closed model, used through the Claude API and cloud platforms under Anthropic's Commercial Terms of Service", "transports": [], "remoteUrl": "https://api.anthropic.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A Claude API key from the Console, sent as `x-api-key` or a bearer token with `anthropic-version`, per the Claude API listing. Access to claude-mythos-5-2 needs the organisation verified through one of Anthropic's programmes, the Cyber Verification Program or the Life Sciences Verification Program, applied for in a form and decided by Anthropic.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$8 per million input tokens, $40 output, cache writes $10 (5 minutes) or $16 (1 hour), cache reads $0.20, batch at half price, fast mode $16 and $80. Requires 30-day retention. Only after verification. 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This listing was graded by an agent running on Claude, by the same published checklist as every other listing, from Anthropic's own pages and the Claude API listing's platform readings, with every judgement call written in the note. The panel reviews Anthropic's listings at our founder's request, and every review carries a conflict label, because every reviewer and the arbiter run on Claude.", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.1, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 51, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1517, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 95, "maintenance": 91, "payments": 20, "reliability": 60, "schema": 90, "security": 92, "transparency": 85 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Fable 5.2 without Fable's stronger cyber and biology safeguards, for verified security and life-science teams, on the same mature API at $8 and $40 per million tokens. Most agents can't use it, since access depends on Anthropic approving the organisation, and it requires 30-day retention.", "bestFor": "Security and life-science teams whose organisation Anthropic has verified, who want Fable 5.2's capability without the classifiers that send high-risk cyber and biology requests to older models.", "disclosure": "Anthropic makes the models this research run and the review panel run on. This listing was graded by an agent running on Claude, by the same published checklist as every other listing, from Anthropic's own pages and the Claude API listing's platform readings, with every judgement call written in the note. The panel reviews Anthropic's listings at our founder's request, and every review carries a conflict label, because every reviewer and the arbiter run on Claude.", "strengths": [ "$8 input and $40 output per million tokens, 20% below Fable 5.1, with cache reads at 2.5% of input", "1M-token context and 128K output, text and images in", "On the Claude API, Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry once the organisation is verified", "The Claude API's status page, per-model rate limits, SDKs in seven languages and 60-day retirement notice", "Retirement not before 9 November 2027, stated on the model page" ], "weaknesses": [ "Only for organisations Anthropic verifies, so an agent can't start on it alone", "Adaptive thinking is always on and can't be turned off", "Forced tool use (tool_choice any or tool) and sampling parameters return a 400", "Requires 30-day data retention and is outside zero data retention unless Anthropic authorises it", "Benchmark figures are Anthropic's own" ], "agentNotes": [ "Confirm your organisation is verified before routing work here; 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5-minute write $10, 1-hour write $16" }, { "item": "Claude Mythos 5.2 output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 40, "note": "Fast mode $80" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Anthropic, PBC", "domain": "anthropic.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-10-02", "domainNote": "The API is on anthropic.com. anthropic.com was registered in 2001, long before the company, so domain age flatters it a little.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms", "privacy": "https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.claude.com", "changelog": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-09", "notes": [ "Company and platform facts are the Claude API listing's (checked 1 November 2026): Anthropic, PBC, or Anthropic Ireland, Limited for the EEA, Switzerland and the UK, under the Commercial Terms; status page at status.claude.com; dated release notes; security.txt valid to 2026-12-31.", "www.anthropic.com's and platform.claude.com's robots.txt allow our reader on the pages read on 9 November (platform.claude.com disallows only /api/). domainRegistered is carried from the Claude API listing's RDAP reading." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-mythos-5-2.json", "live": { "slug": "claude-mythos-5-2", "probe": { "target": "https://api.anthropic.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-10T17:29:33.239422059Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 268, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 126, "p95ms24h": 201, "samples24h": 173, "samples30d": 173, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-10", "probes": 173, "ok": 173 } ], "since": "2026-11-10T00:33:00.829119768Z" }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.claude.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T17:32:54.800280705Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://anthropic.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2026-12-31T23:59:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:07:43.984717176Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://platform.claude.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T15:42:27.294195707Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-10T17:32:54.800280705Z" }, "streak": { "days": 0, "from": "2026-11-10", "sinceWatching": true, "best": 0 } }, "answer": "Claude Mythos 5.2 scores 76.1 (BB) on agent readiness against xAI API (Grok)'s 71.7 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. xAI API (Grok) leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "xai-api", "name": "xAI API (Grok)", "vendor": "SpaceXSI (xAI)", "vendorUrl": "https://x.ai", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "xAI's API for its Grok models (the docs now name the company SpaceXSI), with text, image, video and voice endpoints, server-side search and remote MCP tools, through an OpenAI-compatible REST API or gRPC.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/xai-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/xai-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/xai-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/xai-api.json", "dns": "xai-api.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python", "license": "Proprietary service under xAI's enterprise terms of service. 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Web search, code execution and attachment search $5 per 1,000 calls, collections search $2.50, X search $5 per 1,000 posts. $0.05 fee for a request blocked before generation for a usage-policy violation (https://docs.x.ai/developers/pricing, checked 2026-11-06).", "priceSummary": "from $1.25 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or the OpenAPI spec. 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The API endpoints had a 3 hour 40 minute models outage on 3 September 2026, no SLA was found, and there's no free tier or first-party SDK beyond Python.", "bestFor": "Agents that want a capable model at a low per-token price with built-in web and X search, remote MCP and voice, and teams that need self-serve ZDR or US-only processing.", "strengths": [ "Grok 4.7 at $2/$6 per million tokens below 200K prompt tokens, with a 500K context and 20% off through the Batch API", "API keys restricted by endpoint and model ACLs, with QPM and TPM caps, expiry and a rotate endpoint", "Self-serve team-wide zero data retention, confirmed on every response by an `x-zero-data-retention` header", "OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "security.txt valid to 2027-06-29 and a HackerOne bug bounty" ], "weaknesses": [ "API models outage of about 3 hours 40 minutes on 3 September 2026, and high error rates on grok-4.6 and grok-4.5 on 17 August", "No SLA, no free tier for the text API, and no Retry-After header documented for 429s", "No stated minimum notice for retirements, and retired slugs are served by a different model at its price", "Remote MCP doesn't support `require_approval`, so server-side tool calls run without an approval step", "The terms, privacy policy and DPA at x.ai/legal answered a Cloudflare block on 6 October and 6 November 2026, so they weren't read" ], "agentNotes": [ "Build on the Responses API at https://api.x.ai/v1. 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Every x.ai page except robots.txt and security.txt answered a Cloudflare block page (403) on 2026-11-06, as the legal pages did on 2026-10-06, so the contracting entity wasn't confirmed. The docs now use the name SpaceXSI and the status page SpaceXAI.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://x.ai/legal/terms-of-service-enterprise", "privacy": "https://x.ai/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.x.ai", "changelog": "https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "x.ai/robots.txt allows all but /tools/, with Content-Signal ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes. docs.x.ai allows all with ai-input=yes. 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Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Commercial Terms with named contracting parties and Apache 2.0 SDKs (15). Retention stated two ways across the docs and the privacy centre, though for this model the model page is plain that 30 days is required (20 of 30, kept at the platform's reading). Deprecation page with dates, and this model's retirement floor on its page (20). Processing countries and subprocessors named (20). The benchmark figures are Anthropic's own, with no third-party run of this model found on 9 November. 15 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 75.", "b": "Closed service under xAI's enterprise terms, with the Python SDK under Apache-2.0 (15). The docs agree with each other on no training, 30-day abuse retention, 30-day storage of stateful responses and the ZDR route, but the privacy policy, enterprise terms and DPA at x.ai/legal answered a Cloudflare block page on 6 October and again on 6 November, so they couldn't be compared (15 of 30). Dated migration guides and redirect tables for each retirement, but no written deprecation policy, and Chat Completions, Anthropic compatibility and grok-voice-2.0 are labelled deprecated with no date (12 of 20). The US regional endpoint states what stays in the US, the global endpoint guarantees no region, and no subprocessor list was readable (10 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 63 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "claude-mythos-5-2", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Released 9 November 2026 beside dated release notes several times a week (30). 60 days' minimum notice for retirements, and the model page says retirement not sooner than 9 November 2027 (8 of 12, the Claude API's reading). Model shutdowns kept to notice (8). Support centre and dated notes (15). The sampled SDK issue without a reply, per the 1 October check (5 of 10). Current SDKs (15). Runtimes stated (10). 30 + 8 + 8 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 10 = 91.", "b": "Model reading. grok-imagine-image-quality and grok-imagine-image-pro retired on 2 November 2026 as announced in September, Grok Voice 3.0 and custom moderation controls in October, Grok 4.7 on 21 September (30). No minimum notice period found. Retirements come as dated migration guides, retired slugs redirect to a replacement rather than failing, billed at the replacement's price, and grok-voice-2.0 was deprecated in October with no end date (4 of 12). Shutdowns in the last 90 days with dates given in advance, `grok-voice-transcribe-1.0` on 2 October and `grok-imagine-image-quality` on 2 November (8 of 8). Release notes several times a month but dated only by month, support by email and a Discord #help channel, not tested. On xai-sdk-python a collaborator commented on 2 of the 16 most recent threads with replies, and most outside pull requests since 23 October are open without a maintainer reply (10 of 15, down from 12). The repository has CI, release and version-bump workflows (5 of 10). One current first-party SDK, `xai-sdk` 1.21.0 tagged on 23 October, Python only (10 of 15). Supported runtimes stated, Python 3.10 or later (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 91, "b": 77 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "reliability", "leads": "claude-mythos-5-2", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Status page at status.claude.com with component history (20). The last 90 days carry several major and two critical API incidents, among them Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on 3 September and Fable 5.1 on 23 and 25 October, so 0 for incident history. Rate limits published per model, Fable 5.x at 4,000 requests a minute at the Start tier (15). 429s with `retry-after` and SDK retries with backoff (15). No SLA on sale (0). The model page lists it as a current model with no preview label (10). 20 + 0 + 15 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 60. Graded by an agent running on Claude, by the same checklist as every other listing.", "b": "Status page at status.x.ai with components for the global and US API endpoints, voice, the consumer apps and, since the Cursor merger, Cursor's services, with an RSS feed (20). The feed, read on 6 November, now holds 267 incidents back to 11 August, so the whole 90-day window is readable. On the API components there were high error rates on grok-4.6 and grok-4.5 from 21:57 to 23:28 UTC on 17 August (about 90 minutes) and a models outage on the global and US endpoints from 13:30 to 17:09 UTC on 3 September (about 3 hours 40 minutes), so several majors. A 26-minute datacenter outage across the API on 22 September, voice disruptions of 12 and 28 minutes on 10 September and 6 October, a 63-minute voice and Imagine degradation on 30 October and a 37-second model degradation on 24 October add to the record (0). Rate limits published per model and tier, grok-4.7 at Tier 0 is 150 requests a second and 50M TPM, with the per-second cap derived as RPM divided by 48 (15). The rate-limits page shows exponential backoff on 429, but no Retry-After header or overload guidance was found (10 of 15). No SLA found in the docs or llms.txt (0). The Responses API has been GA since September 2025 and grok-4.7 carries no preview label (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 55 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "claude-mythos-5-2", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Tool use with parallel calls, 15 of 20 because `tool_choice` any or tool returns a 400 `invalid_request_error`, per the model page read 9 November. Structured outputs (15). Prompt caching with reads at $0.20, 0.025x input, per the pricing page read 9 November (15). 1M context by default and at most, 128K output (15). Batch at half price (10). Official SDKs in seven languages (10). Documented errors, `retry-after` and retries (15). 15 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 15 = 95.", "b": "Model reading of the checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors). Function calling with parallel calls on by default and `tool_choice` of auto, required, none or a named function (20). Guaranteed structured outputs (15). Automatic prompt caching, cached input at 0.25x on grok-4.7 ($0.50 per million) and 0.16x on grok-4.3 (15). 500,000-token context on grok-4.7 and 1,000,000 on grok-4.3, 13 of 15 for the default model's 500K. The Batch API is now 20% off on grok-4.7, 4.6 and 4.5 as well as the older models, with batch requests outside the rate limits (10 of 10, up from 5 on 6 October). One first-party SDK, `xai-sdk` for Python, with the OpenAI SDKs and Vercel's AI SDK documented as alternatives (5 of 10). Status codes documented with fixes, no Retry-After header found (12 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 95, "b": 90 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "security", "leads": "xai-api", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Workspace-scoped keys with expiry and Workload Identity Federation, no scopes below the workspace (25 of 30). No training on API data without express permission (20). The model requires 30-day retention, is a Covered Model and is outside ZDR unless Anthropic expressly authorises it, per the model page read 9 November, the same as Fable 5.1 (12 of 15). Usage and cost analytics, Compliance API and OpenTelemetry export (15). security.txt, HackerOne and SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 (20). Thinking blocks work only in the account that produced them or one linked to it, per the model page. 25 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 20 = 92.", "b": "Model reading. Team API keys with ACLs per endpoint and per model, QPM and TPM caps, expiry, and create, rotate, disable and delete through the Management API, plus documented mTLS. GitHub secret scanning disables leaked keys and emails the owner (30). The security FAQ says SpaceXSI never trains on API inputs or outputs without explicit permission (20). Requests and responses are kept 30 days for abuse auditing, then deleted, and team admins can switch on zero data retention themselves, confirmed by an `x-zero-data-retention` header on every response (15). Console audit log and a Management API audit-events endpoint, plus optional per-key request logging (15). security.txt valid to 2027-06-29 with a HackerOne bug bounty and a separate safety contact for prompt-injection issues. SOC 2 Type 2 is claimed in the security FAQ with the reports behind an NDA in the trust centre, so 17 of 20. Remote MCP doesn't support `require_approval`, which the model checklist doesn't score but reviewers should see. New in October, a `guidelines` array lets the caller make the model decline nsfw, violence or profanity content, which the checklist doesn't score." }, "scores": { "a": 92, "b": 97 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Anthropic", "b": "SpaceXSI (xAI)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.anthropic.com/v1", "b": "https://api.x.ai/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Closed model, used through the Claude API and cloud platforms under Anthropic's Commercial Terms of Service", "b": "Proprietary service under xAI's enterprise terms of service. The Python SDK is Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-11-09", "b": "2026-11-02", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-10-27", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-10-27", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "597 stars, 912k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Claude Mythos 5.2 scores 76.1 (BB) on agent readiness against xAI API (Grok)'s 71.7 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. xAI API (Grok) leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Claude Mythos 5.2 or xAI API (Grok)?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Claude Mythos 5.2 and xAI API (Grok) need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Claude Mythos 5.2 has a hosted endpoint at https://api.anthropic.com/v1 and xAI API (Grok) at https://api.x.ai/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Claude Mythos 5.2 and xAI API (Grok) without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 60 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 95 against 90", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 91 against 77", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 85 against 63" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Security and life-science teams whose organisation Anthropic has verified, who want Fable 5.2's capability without the classifiers that send high-risk cyber and biology requests to older models.", "slug": "claude-mythos-5-2", "watchFor": "Only for organisations Anthropic verifies, so an agent can't start on it alone" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 97 against 92" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that want a capable model at a low per-token price with built-in web and X search, remote MCP and voice, and teams that need self-serve ZDR or US-only processing.", "slug": "xai-api", "watchFor": "API models outage of about 3 hours 40 minutes on 3 September 2026, and high error rates on grok-4.6 and grok-4.5 on 17 August" } ], "history": null, "job": { "capability": "inference.llm", "name": "LLM inference" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-vs-claude-mythos-5-2.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock vs Claude Mythos 5.2", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-vs-claude-mythos-5-2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-vs-xai-api.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock vs xAI API (Grok)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-vs-xai-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-claude-mythos-5-2.json", "title": "Claude API vs Claude Mythos 5.2", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-claude-mythos-5-2" }, { "json": 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-mythos-5-2.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/claude-mythos-5-2.json\n- xAI API (Grok): grade BB, 71.7/100, rank #154 of 1517. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/xai-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/xai-api.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 956 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Claude Mythos 5.2 (BB)\n\nGood for: Security and life-science teams whose organisation Anthropic has verified, who want Fable 5.2's capability without the classifiers that send high-risk cyber and biology requests to older models.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 95 against 90\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 91 against 77\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 85 against 63\n\nWatch for: Only for organisations Anthropic verifies, so an agent can't start on it alone\n\n### xAI API (Grok) (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a capable model at a low per-token price with built-in web and X search, remote MCP and voice, and teams that need self-serve ZDR or US-only processing.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 97 against 92\n\nWatch for: API models outage of about 3 hours 40 minutes on 3 September 2026, and high error rates on grok-4.6 and grok-4.5 on 17 August\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Claude Mythos 5.2 +22\n\n- Claude Mythos 5.2 (85): Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Commercial Terms with named contracting parties and Apache 2.0 SDKs (15). Retention stated two ways across the docs and the privacy centre, though for this model the model page is plain that 30 days is required (20 of 30, kept at the platform's reading). Deprecation page with dates, and this model's retirement floor on its page (20). Processing countries and subprocessors named (20). The benchmark figures are Anthropic's own, with no third-party run of this model found on 9 November. 15 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 75.\n- xAI API (Grok) (63): Closed service under xAI's enterprise terms, with the Python SDK under Apache-2.0 (15). The docs agree with each other on no training, 30-day abuse retention, 30-day storage of stateful responses and the ZDR route, but the privacy policy, enterprise terms and DPA at x.ai/legal answered a Cloudflare block page on 6 October and again on 6 November, so they couldn't be compared (15 of 30). Dated migration guides and redirect tables for each retirement, but no written deprecation policy, and Chat Completions, Anthropic compatibility and grok-voice-2.0 are labelled deprecated with no date (12 of 20). The US regional endpoint states what stays in the US, the global endpoint guarantees no region, and no subprocessor list was readable (10 of 20).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Claude Mythos 5.2 +14\n\n- Claude Mythos 5.2 (91): Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Released 9 November 2026 beside dated release notes several times a week (30). 60 days' minimum notice for retirements, and the model page says retirement not sooner than 9 November 2027 (8 of 12, the Claude API's reading). Model shutdowns kept to notice (8). Support centre and dated notes (15). The sampled SDK issue without a reply, per the 1 October check (5 of 10). Current SDKs (15). Runtimes stated (10). 30 + 8 + 8 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 10 = 91.\n- xAI API (Grok) (77): Model reading. grok-imagine-image-quality and grok-imagine-image-pro retired on 2 November 2026 as announced in September, Grok Voice 3.0 and custom moderation controls in October, Grok 4.7 on 21 September (30). No minimum notice period found. Retirements come as dated migration guides, retired slugs redirect to a replacement rather than failing, billed at the replacement's price, and grok-voice-2.0 was deprecated in October with no end date (4 of 12). Shutdowns in the last 90 days with dates given in advance, `grok-voice-transcribe-1.0` on 2 October and `grok-imagine-image-quality` on 2 November (8 of 8). Release notes several times a month but dated only by month, support by email and a Discord #help channel, not tested. On xai-sdk-python a collaborator commented on 2 of the 16 most recent threads with replies, and most outside pull requests since 23 October are open without a maintainer reply (10 of 15, down from 12). The repository has CI, release and version-bump workflows (5 of 10). One current first-party SDK, `xai-sdk` 1.21.0 tagged on 23 October, Python only (10 of 15). Supported runtimes stated, Python 3.10 or later (10).\n\n### Reliability: Claude Mythos 5.2 +5\n\n- Claude Mythos 5.2 (60): Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Status page at status.claude.com with component history (20). The last 90 days carry several major and two critical API incidents, among them Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on 3 September and Fable 5.1 on 23 and 25 October, so 0 for incident history. Rate limits published per model, Fable 5.x at 4,000 requests a minute at the Start tier (15). 429s with `retry-after` and SDK retries with backoff (15). No SLA on sale (0). The model page lists it as a current model with no preview label (10). 20 + 0 + 15 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 60. Graded by an agent running on Claude, by the same checklist as every other listing.\n- xAI API (Grok) (55): Status page at status.x.ai with components for the global and US API endpoints, voice, the consumer apps and, since the Cursor merger, Cursor's services, with an RSS feed (20). The feed, read on 6 November, now holds 267 incidents back to 11 August, so the whole 90-day window is readable. On the API components there were high error rates on grok-4.6 and grok-4.5 from 21:57 to 23:28 UTC on 17 August (about 90 minutes) and a models outage on the global and US endpoints from 13:30 to 17:09 UTC on 3 September (about 3 hours 40 minutes), so several majors. A 26-minute datacenter outage across the API on 22 September, voice disruptions of 12 and 28 minutes on 10 September and 6 October, a 63-minute voice and Imagine degradation on 30 October and a 37-second model degradation on 24 October add to the record (0). Rate limits published per model and tier, grok-4.7 at Tier 0 is 150 requests a second and 50M TPM, with the per-second cap derived as RPM divided by 48 (15). The rate-limits page shows exponential backoff on 429, but no Retry-After header or overload guidance was found (10 of 15). No SLA found in the docs or llms.txt (0). The Responses API has been GA since September 2025 and grok-4.7 carries no preview label (10).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Claude Mythos 5.2 +5\n\n- Claude Mythos 5.2 (95): Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Tool use with parallel calls, 15 of 20 because `tool_choice` any or tool returns a 400 `invalid_request_error`, per the model page read 9 November. Structured outputs (15). Prompt caching with reads at $0.20, 0.025x input, per the pricing page read 9 November (15). 1M context by default and at most, 128K output (15). Batch at half price (10). Official SDKs in seven languages (10). Documented errors, `retry-after` and retries (15). 15 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 15 = 95.\n- xAI API (Grok) (90): Model reading of the checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors). Function calling with parallel calls on by default and `tool_choice` of auto, required, none or a named function (20). Guaranteed structured outputs (15). Automatic prompt caching, cached input at 0.25x on grok-4.7 ($0.50 per million) and 0.16x on grok-4.3 (15). 500,000-token context on grok-4.7 and 1,000,000 on grok-4.3, 13 of 15 for the default model's 500K. The Batch API is now 20% off on grok-4.7, 4.6 and 4.5 as well as the older models, with batch requests outside the rate limits (10 of 10, up from 5 on 6 October). One first-party SDK, `xai-sdk` for Python, with the OpenAI SDKs and Vercel's AI SDK documented as alternatives (5 of 10). Status codes documented with fixes, no Retry-After header found (12 of 15).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: xAI API (Grok) +5\n\n- Claude Mythos 5.2 (92): Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Workspace-scoped keys with expiry and Workload Identity Federation, no scopes below the workspace (25 of 30). No training on API data without express permission (20). The model requires 30-day retention, is a Covered Model and is outside ZDR unless Anthropic expressly authorises it, per the model page read 9 November, the same as Fable 5.1 (12 of 15). Usage and cost analytics, Compliance API and OpenTelemetry export (15). security.txt, HackerOne and SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 (20). Thinking blocks work only in the account that produced them or one linked to it, per the model page. 25 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 20 = 92.\n- xAI API (Grok) (97): Model reading. Team API keys with ACLs per endpoint and per model, QPM and TPM caps, expiry, and create, rotate, disable and delete through the Management API, plus documented mTLS. GitHub secret scanning disables leaked keys and emails the owner (30). The security FAQ says SpaceXSI never trains on API inputs or outputs without explicit permission (20). Requests and responses are kept 30 days for abuse auditing, then deleted, and team admins can switch on zero data retention themselves, confirmed by an `x-zero-data-retention` header on every response (15). Console audit log and a Management API audit-events endpoint, plus optional per-key request logging (15). security.txt valid to 2027-06-29 with a HackerOne bug bounty and a separate safety contact for prompt-injection issues. SOC 2 Type 2 is claimed in the security FAQ with the reports behind an NDA in the trust centre, so 17 of 20. Remote MCP doesn't support `require_approval`, which the model checklist doesn't score but reviewers should see. New in October, a `guidelines` array lets the caller make the model decline nsfw, violence or profanity content, which the checklist doesn't score.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Claude Mythos 5.2 | xAI API (Grok) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 55 | Claude Mythos 5.2 +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 88 | Claude Mythos 5.2 +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 95 | 90 | Claude Mythos 5.2 +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 92 | 97 | xAI API (Grok) +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 91 | 77 | Claude Mythos 5.2 +14 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 63 | Claude Mythos 5.2 +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **76.1 · BB** | **71.7 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Claude Mythos 5.2 | xAI API (Grok) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Anthropic | SpaceXSI (xAI) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.anthropic.com/v1` | `https://api.x.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed model, used through the Claude API and cloud platforms under Anthropic's Commercial Terms of Service | Proprietary service under xAI's enterprise terms of service. The Python SDK is Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-11-09 | 2026-11-02 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-10-27 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-10-27 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 597 stars, 912k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Claude Mythos 5.2.** Fable 5.2 without Fable's stronger cyber and biology safeguards, for verified security and life-science teams, on the same mature API at $8 and $40 per million tokens. Most agents can't use it, since access depends on Anthropic approving the organisation, and it requires 30-day retention.\n\n**xAI API (Grok).** Grok 4.7 at $2/$6 per million tokens, now 20% off in batch, with a public OpenAPI spec, llms.txt, API keys limited by endpoint and model, and self-serve zero data retention. The API endpoints had a 3 hour 40 minute models outage on 3 September 2026, no SLA was found, and there's no free tier or first-party SDK beyond Python.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Claude Mythos 5.2\n\n1. Confirm your organisation is verified before routing work here; otherwise use claude-fable-5-2\n2. Call https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages with model claude-mythos-5-2 and your key\n3. Steer thinking with the effort parameter (default high); don't send temperature, top_p or top_k\n4. Don't force a tool with tool_choice any or tool; describe the tool and let the model choose\n5. Thinking blocks from it are read only by Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, so keep them out of other models' context\n6. Check data retention before sending regulated data, since 30 days is required\n\n### xAI API (Grok)\n\n1. Build on the Responses API at https://api.x.ai/v1. Chat Completions is labelled deprecated and the Anthropic-compatible endpoint fully deprecated\n2. Pin a dated model slug. A retired slug keeps answering from a replacement model, billed at the replacement's price\n3. Back off exponentially on 429. The per-second cap is the per-minute budget divided by 48, with a minimum of 2\n4. Set `allowed_tools` on remote MCP servers. There's no approval step, and every exposed tool enters the context\n5. Use https://us.api.x.ai/v1 when processing must stay in the US. It costs 1.1x and serves only grok-4.7 and grok-4.6\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Claude Mythos 5.2 or xAI API (Grok)?\n\nClaude Mythos 5.2 scores 76.1 (BB) on agent readiness against xAI API (Grok)'s 71.7 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. xAI API (Grok) leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Claude Mythos 5.2 and xAI API (Grok) need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Claude Mythos 5.2 and xAI API (Grok) without installing anything?\n\nYes. Claude Mythos 5.2 has a hosted endpoint at https://api.anthropic.com/v1 and xAI API (Grok) at https://api.x.ai/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-mythos-5-2-vs-xai-api.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-mythos-5-2-vs-xai-api.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"claude-mythos-5-2\", \"b\": \"xai-api\"}`. 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