Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Grok 3

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 9 categories and Grok 3 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 42.6 to 13.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 80% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 5.5% for Grok 3.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Grok 3 specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Grok 3
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index50.539.9
Released2025-11-012025-04-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6940

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Grok 3
WeirdML63.7%37.2%
LMArena Coding15041432
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
Aider Polyglot—53.3%
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Grok 3
BALROG43.5%29.5%
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Grok 3
ARC-AGI-237.6%0%
SimpleBench62%36.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%61.3%
ARC-AGI-180%5.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14761434
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09138.33
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Grok 3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%55.6%
LMArena Math14631391
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%3.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%0%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
ProofBench36%—
Omni-MATH—46.4%
MATH Level 5—88.7%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Grok 3
GPQA Diamond86%75.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%5.8%
LMArena Expert14871421
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
MMLU-Pro—78.8%
Confabulations—14.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), Grok 3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Grok 3
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Grok 3
LMArena Non-English14381410
LMArena Chinese14701448
LMArena French14711460
LMArena German14491431
LMArena Japanese14161387
LMArena Korean14241373
LMArena Russian14471416
LMArena Spanish14581417

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Grok 3
LMArena Instruction Following14781409
IFEval—88.4%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Grok 3
LMArena Longer Query14801439
Fiction.LiveBench—58.3%
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Grok 3
LMArena Text14511426
LMArena Creative Writing14451414
EQ-Bench Creative Writing16871186
LMArena Multi-Turn14661425
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.4%
WildBench—84.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Grok 3?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Grok 3 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 41.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Grok 3 share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.

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