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.
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 | Grok 4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 53.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2026-09-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 500K |
| Max output | — | 500K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 4.7 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Grok 4.7: 58.0 (#18)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1427 |
| FrontierCode | — | 47.6% |
| CursorBench | — | 46.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1639 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 29.5% |
| SciCode | — | 57.8% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Grok 4.7: 36.7 (#37)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Grok 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)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1413 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 96% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 153.53 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 76.8% |
| CritPt | — | 18% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 38% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 29% |
| LMCA | — | 49.4% |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Grok 4.7 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Grok 4.7: 57.8 (#39)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 98.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1407 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 53% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 34% |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Grok 4.7 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Grok 4.7: 62.8 (#22)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 92.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1422 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 56% |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Grok 4.7 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Grok 4.7: 35.5 (#87)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1228 |
| 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)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1389 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1455 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1455 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1397 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1400 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
Instruction Following Grok 4.7 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Grok 4.7: 74.1 (#105)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1404 |
Long Context Grok 4.7 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Grok 4.7: 43.1 (#104)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1413 |
Writing & Preference Grok 4.7 leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Grok 4.7: 70.0 (#24)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1399 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1393 |
| 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.