Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 xAI

37.7

Rank #198 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 24.8.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index58.237.7
Released2026-02-042024-08-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6817

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 37.0 (#199)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Coding15361269
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 24.8 (#159)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Hard Prompts15271255
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 35.4 (#185)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Math15191265
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%—
ProofBench50%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)40.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 33.9 (#200)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Expert15461238
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 41.4 (#208)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Non-English14891257
LMArena Chinese15511262
LMArena French15131286
LMArena German15021273
LMArena Japanese14841213
LMArena Korean14641195
LMArena Russian14971261
LMArena Spanish15101279

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 65.5 (#220)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Instruction Following15231245

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 38.4 (#196)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Longer Query15201266
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 47.3 (#211)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Text15031281
LMArena Creative Writing15051242
LMArena Multi-Turn15131265
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 has 17.

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