Model comparison
Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Grok 4.1
Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 3 categories and Grok 4.1 in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.1 leads 29.5 to 15.1.
Side by side
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 41.5 |
| Released | 2025-10-15 | 2025-11-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | — |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Results tracked | 53 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.0 (#78), Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1330 | 1214 |
| LMArena Coding | 1453 | 1445 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 66.6% | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 64.7% | — |
| SciCode | 43.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 45.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 653.48 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.6 (#52), Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 35.5% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 68.7% | — |
| Cybench | — | 39% |
| DeepResearch Bench | 45.5% | — |
| BALROG | 31.2% | — |
| ExploitBench | 13.7% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 458.89 | — |
Reasoning Grok 4.1 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#320), Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1420 | 1435 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 14.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 47.7% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 8% | — |
| DTBench | 73.6% | — |
| LMCA | 30.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.41 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.4 | — |
Math Claude Haiku 4.5 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.9 (#78), Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1396 | 1422 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 56.1% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 96.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 5.9% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |
Knowledge Grok 4.1 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.7 (#153), Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1442 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 71.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 13.2% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.5% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Haiku 4.5: 26.8 (#118), Grok 4.1: —
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 0% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1420 | — |
Multilingual Grok 4.1 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 49.9 (#129), Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1377 | 1425 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1417 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1408 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1375 | 1446 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1339 | 1397 |
| LMArena Korean | 1347 | 1407 |
| LMArena Russian | 1381 | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1420 | 1438 |
Instruction Following Grok 4.1 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.4 (#149), Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1414 | 1400 |
| IFEval | 80.1% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#92), Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1427 | 1416 |
Writing & Preference Grok 4.1 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 57.9 (#123), Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1396 | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1372 | 1411 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1409 | 1437 |
| WildBench | 83.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1064 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Grok 4.1?
Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Grok 4.1 better for coding?
Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 33.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and Grok 4.1 share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.1 has 19.