Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Grok Build 0.1

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 35.8 on the Noometry Index. Grok Build 0.1 costs 8.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Grok Build 0.1 xAI

35.8

Rank #214 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 3 categories and Grok Build 0.1 in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 51.0 to 22.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GBAEval: 44.1% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 2.4% for Grok Build 0.1.
  • Grok Build 0.1 is cheaper at $1 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 256K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok Build 0.1 specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Grok Build 0.1
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index58.335.8
Released2026-02-042026-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M256K
Max output128K256K
Input $ / M tokens$5$1
Output $ / M tokens$25$2
Results tracked683

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Grok Build 0.1: 42.5 (#90)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok Build 0.1
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1546—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
SciCode—50.2%
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
LMArena Coding1535—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Grok Build 0.1: 22.5 (#122)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok Build 0.1
GBAEval44.1%2.4%
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Grok Build 0.1: 31.3 (#73)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok Build 0.1
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
CritPt—9.1%
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1527—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.36—
ForecastBench60—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Grok Build 0.1: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Grok Build 0.1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok Build 0.1
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Grok Build 0.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok Build 0.1
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Grok Build 0.1: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok Build 0.1
LMArena Non-English1490—
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1504—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1465—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1512—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Grok Build 0.1: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok Build 0.1
LMArena Instruction Following1523—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Grok Build 0.1: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok Build 0.1
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Grok Build 0.1: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok Build 0.1
LMArena Text1504—
LMArena Creative Writing1506—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—
LMArena Multi-Turn1514—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Grok Build 0.1?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 35.8 on the Noometry Index. Grok Build 0.1 costs 8.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Grok Build 0.1?

Grok Build 0.1 is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.6 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Grok Build 0.1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 42.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok Build 0.1 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Grok Build 0.1 has 3.

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