Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Grok 4.6
Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#19); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.6 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.6 leads 61.3 to 18.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 97.3% for Grok 4.6.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 56.8 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2026-08-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 500K |
| Max output | — | 500K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 49 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.6: 58.0 (#14)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 67.5% |
| FrontierCode | — | 48% |
| CursorBench | — | 41.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1620 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 25.3% |
| SciCode | — | 56.5% |
| WeirdML | — | 67.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1464 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,508 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#25)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 65.3% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 17.2% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 9,047 |
Reasoning Grok 4.6 leads
Claude Instant: 18.8, Grok 4.6: 61.3 (#18)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 97.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 156.48 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 67.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 75.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 80% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 87.5% |
| CritPt | — | 19.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 40% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 30.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1445 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 34% |
| LMCA | — | 48.5% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.6: 66.8 (#19)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 66% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 31.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 99.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 51% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1416 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#18)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 94% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 49.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1463 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.6: 43.9 (#18)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1265 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 33.2% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 40% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1452 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.6: 53.3 (#67)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1422 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1479 |
| LMArena French | — | 1458 |
| LMArena German | — | 1425 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1383 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1395 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1427 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1408 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.6: 75.6 (#59)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1431 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.6: 44.4 (#62)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1453 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Grok 4.6: 62.5 (#77)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1427 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1430 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1422 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Grok 4.6?
Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#19); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Grok 4.6 share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.6 has 49.