Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Grok 3

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and Grok 3 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 53.8 to 13.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 93.5% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 5.5% for Grok 3.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Grok 3 specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Grok 3
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index58.339.9
Released2026-04-142025-04-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6640

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 3
WeirdML76.4%37.2%
LMArena Coding15181432
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
Aider Polyglot—53.3%
LMArena WebDev1558—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
MirrorCode31.1%—
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 3
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
BALROG—29.5%
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 3
ARC-AGI-275.8%0%
SimpleBench61.7%36.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%61.3%
ARC-AGI-193.5%5.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061434
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25138.33
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 3
GPQA Diamond90.2%75.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%5.8%
LMArena Expert15211421
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
MMLU-Pro—78.8%
Confabulations—14.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Grok 3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 3
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 3
LMArena Non-English14801410
LMArena Chinese15311448
LMArena French15031460
LMArena German14951431
LMArena Japanese14721387
LMArena Korean14641373
LMArena Russian14941416
LMArena Spanish14951417

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 3
LMArena Instruction Following14981409
IFEval—88.4%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 3
LMArena Longer Query15051439
Fiction.LiveBench—58.3%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 3
LMArena Text14901426
LMArena Creative Writing14861414
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19141186
LMArena Multi-Turn15051425
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.4%
WildBench—84.9%
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Grok 3?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Grok 3 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 41.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Grok 3 share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.

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