Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Grok 4.1

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 41.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Grok 4.1 xAI

41.5

Rank #134 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and Grok 4.1 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 66.7 to 38.9.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Grok 4.1 specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Grok 4.1
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index58.341.5
Released2026-04-142025-11-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6619

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.1
LMArena WebDev15581214
LMArena Coding15181445
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
MirrorCode31.1%—
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.1
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
Cybench—39%
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 4.1: 29.5 (#91)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.1
LMArena Hard Prompts15061435
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.1
LMArena Expert15211417
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Grok 4.1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.1
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 4.1: 53.4 (#68)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.1
LMArena Non-English14801425
LMArena Chinese15311465
LMArena French15031448
LMArena German14951446
LMArena Japanese14721397
LMArena Korean14641407
LMArena Russian14941434
LMArena Spanish14951438

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.1
LMArena Instruction Following14981400

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.1
LMArena Longer Query15051416

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.1
LMArena Text14901437
LMArena Creative Writing14861411
LMArena Multi-Turn15051437
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Grok 4.1?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 41.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Grok 4.1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 33.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Grok 4.1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.1 has 19.

Related comparisons

Go deeper