Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 4

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 39 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 39 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Grok 4 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4 leads 36.7 to 18.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 28.6% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 66.7% for Grok 4.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Grok 4 specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index39.548.1
Released2025-02-242025-07-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked5848

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
Aider Polyglot64.9%79.6%
LMArena Coding13611408
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
GSO3.8%—
WeirdML—45.7%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
Cybench20%43%
DeepResearch Bench43.6%47.3%
METR Time Horizons60%66.6%
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—21.1%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
OSWorld35.8%—
BALROG—43.6%
LMArena Search—1142

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
ARC-AGI-20.9%16%
SimpleBench46.4%60.5%
ARC-AGI-128.6%66.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331409
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16146.44
ForecastBench61.860.9
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.6%
Chess Puzzles—28%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Grok 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%84%
Omni-MATH33%60.3%
LMArena Math13371422
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%19.7%
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
GPQA Diamond79.7%87%
MMLU-Pro78.4%85.1%
Confabulations14.7%12.4%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%72.7%
LMArena Expert13211415
Humanity's Last Exam8%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
LMArena Vision11691210
GeoBench68%45%
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
LMArena Non-English12961403
LMArena Chinese12991427
LMArena French13031418
LMArena German13011429
LMArena Japanese12671394
LMArena Korean12491377
LMArena Russian13111410
LMArena Spanish12981420

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
IFEval83.4%94.9%
LMArena Instruction Following13521387
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%94.4%
LMArena Longer Query13731409

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4
LMArena Text13141411
LMArena Creative Writing13321397
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%76.9%
WildBench81.4%79.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn13391416
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Grok 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Grok 4 share?

39 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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