Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Grok 4

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 9 categories and Grok 4 in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 36.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 69.2% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 16% for Grok 4.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok 4 specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Grok 4
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index58.248.1
Released2026-02-042025-07-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6848

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4
WeirdML78%45.7%
LMArena Coding15361408
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
Aider Polyglot—79.6%
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4
Terminal-Bench79.8%27.2%
Cybench93%43%
DeepResearch Bench55.3%47.3%
LMArena Search12531142
METR Time Horizons78.9%66.6%
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—21.1%
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
BALROG—43.6%
GBAEval44.1%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4
ARC-AGI-269.2%16%
SimpleBench67.6%60.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%73.6%
ARC-AGI-194%66.7%
Chess Puzzles17%28%
LMArena Hard Prompts15271409
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24146.44
ForecastBench6060.9
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4
GPQA Diamond90.5%87%
LMArena Expert15461415
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
MMLU-Pro—85.1%
Confabulations—12.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4
LMArena Vision13161210
GeoBench—45%
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4
LMArena Non-English14891403
LMArena Chinese15511427
LMArena French15131418
LMArena German15021429
LMArena Japanese14841394
LMArena Korean14641377
LMArena Russian14971410
LMArena Spanish15101420

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4
LMArena Instruction Following15231387
IFEval—94.9%

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4
LMArena Longer Query15201409
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4
LMArena Text15031411
LMArena Creative Writing15051397
LMArena Multi-Turn15131416
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
WildBench—79.7%
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Grok 4?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Grok 4 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 50.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok 4 share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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