Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Grok 4.3

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index. Grok 4.3 costs 6.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 40 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Grok 4.3 xAI

43.8

Rank #86 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 40 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 10 categories and Grok 4.3 in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 66.7 to 46.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 54% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 11% for Grok 4.3.
  • Grok 4.3 is cheaper at $1.25 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Grok 4.3 specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index58.343.8
Released2026-04-142026-04-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Max output128K30K
Input $ / M tokens$5$1.25
Output $ / M tokens$25$2.50
Results tracked6640

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Grok 4.3: 41.6 (#121)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
LMArena WebDev15581357
SciCode54.5%47.3%
WeirdML76.4%49.9%
LMArena Coding15181415
ALE-Bench1,323944.17
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
GSO44.1%—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Grok 4.3: 27.7 (#99)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
GDP.pdf21%8%
LMArena Search12331165
Vending-Bench 210,93735.26
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Grok 4.3: 35.9 (#68)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
NYT Connections (extended)39%55.2%
CritPt12%8%
Chess Puzzles30%25%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061396
DTBench94.7%90.7%
LMCA52.2%38.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25149.16
ForecastBench60.360.3
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Grok 4.3: 46.0 (#74)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Grok 4.3: 52.5 (#62)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
GPQA Diamond90.2%88.8%
SimpleQA Verified51.7%33.2%
LMArena Expert15211385
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Grok 4.3: 31.6 (#104)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
LMArena Vision13161229
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%0%
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Grok 4.3: 50.5 (#120)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
LMArena Non-English14801385
LMArena Chinese15311422
LMArena French15031412
LMArena German14951395
LMArena Japanese14721379
LMArena Korean14641356
LMArena Russian14941399
LMArena Spanish14951398

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Grok 4.3: 72.1 (#140)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
LMArena Instruction Following14981366

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Grok 4.3: 42.5 (#123)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
LMArena Longer Query15051393

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Grok 4.3: 58.5 (#118)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
LMArena Text14901397
LMArena Creative Writing14861380
EQ-Bench 413111075
LMArena Multi-Turn15051406
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Grok 4.3?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index. Grok 4.3 costs 6.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or Grok 4.3?

Grok 4.3 is cheaper. It lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Grok 4.3 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 41.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Grok 4.3 share?

40 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.3 has 40.

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