Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Grok 4.7

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Grok 4.7 xAI

53.1

Rank #37 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.7 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4.7 leads 57.8 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 98.1% for Grok 4.7.

Side by side

Claude 3 Sonnet and Grok 4.7 specifications
Claude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index29.053.1
Released2024-02-292026-09-21
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—500K
Max output—500K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked3039

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Grok 4.7: 58.0 (#18)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Coding12231427
FrontierCode—47.6%
CursorBench—46.3%
LMArena WebDev—1639
FrontierSWE—29.5%
SciCode—57.8%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Grok 4.7: 36.7 (#37)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
APEX-Agents—54.6%
GDP.pdf—22.8%
Vending-Bench 2—10,537

Reasoning Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Grok 4.7: 49.1 (#40)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Hard Prompts11971413
DTBench53.6%96%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7153.53
NYT Connections (extended)—76.8%
CritPt—18%
Chess Puzzles—38%
Mystery Game Puzzles—29%
LMCA—49.4%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Grok 4.7: 57.8 (#39)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%98.1%
LMArena Math12131407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—53%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
ProofBench—34%
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Grok 4.7: 62.8 (#22)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
GPQA Diamond40.6%92.7%
LMArena Expert11731422
SimpleQA Verified—56%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Grok 4.7: 35.5 (#87)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Vision9841228
Blueprint-Bench 2—32.5%
Furniture Assembly—20.8%

Multilingual Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Grok 4.7: 50.8 (#116)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Non-English12051389
LMArena Chinese11891455
LMArena French12291455
LMArena Russian12271397
LMArena Spanish12041400
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—

Instruction Following Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Grok 4.7: 74.1 (#105)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Instruction Following11991404

Long Context Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Grok 4.7: 43.1 (#104)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Longer Query12111413

Writing & Preference Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Grok 4.7: 70.0 (#24)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Text12181399
LMArena Creative Writing11861391
LMArena Multi-Turn12271393
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—2007

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Grok 4.7?

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Grok 4.7 better for coding?

Grok 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.0 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Grok 4.7 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.7 has 39.

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