Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Grok 4.1
Grok 4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#134); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.1 leads 29.5 to 19.6.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Grok 4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 41.5 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2025-11-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1214 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1445 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 39% |
Reasoning Grok 4.1 leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1435 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1422 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1417 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1425 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1465 |
| LMArena French | — | 1448 |
| LMArena German | — | 1446 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1397 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1407 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1438 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1400 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1416 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1437 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Grok 4.1?
Grok 4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#134); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Grok 4.1 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.1 has 19.