Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Grok-3 mini

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Grok-3 mini xAI

41.2

Rank #141 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 7 categories and Grok-3 mini in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 53.8 to 13.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 93.5% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 16.5% for Grok-3 mini.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Grok-3 mini specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index58.341.2
Released2026-04-142025-04-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6635

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
WeirdML76.4%42.6%
LMArena Coding15181379
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
Aider Polyglot—49.3%
LMArena WebDev1558—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
MirrorCode31.1%—
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Grok-3 mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
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 mini: 13.6 (#334)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
ARC-AGI-275.8%0.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%61.3%
ARC-AGI-193.5%16.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061375
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25140.35
SimpleBench61.7%—
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 mini: 42.1 (#85)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%77.8%
LMArena Math14991386
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%5.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
ProofBench54%—
Omni-MATH—31.8%
MATH Level 5—90.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
GPQA Diamond90.2%76.3%
LMArena Expert15211395
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
MMLU-Pro—79.9%
Confabulations—10.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)—67.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

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

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
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 mini: 48.1 (#145)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
LMArena Non-English14801352
LMArena Chinese15311387
LMArena French15031357
LMArena German14951349
LMArena Japanese14721342
LMArena Korean14641335
LMArena Russian14941353
LMArena Spanish14951381

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
LMArena Instruction Following14981357
IFEval—95.1%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
LMArena Longer Query15051372
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok-3 mini
LMArena Text14901370
LMArena Creative Writing14861342
LMArena Multi-Turn15051355
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.5%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
WildBench—65.1%
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Grok-3 mini?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Grok-3 mini better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.

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