Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 xAI

37.7

Rank #198 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.2 to 47.3.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 specifications
Claude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index43.137.7
Released2025-05-222024-08-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5617

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 37.0 (#199)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Coding14421269
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 24.8 (#159)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Hard Prompts13991255
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 35.4 (#185)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Math13901265
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 33.9 (#200)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Expert13861238
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 41.4 (#208)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Non-English13621257
LMArena Chinese13861262
LMArena French13721286
LMArena German13911273
LMArena Japanese13311213
LMArena Korean13211195
LMArena Russian13921261
LMArena Spanish13891279

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 65.5 (#220)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Instruction Following14061245
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 38.4 (#196)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Longer Query14221266
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 47.3 (#211)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13
LMArena Text13771281
LMArena Creative Writing13871242
LMArena Multi-Turn13961265
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 has 17.

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