Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Grok 4.1

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 41.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.3

Rank #50 Confirmed

Grok 4.1 xAI

41.5

Rank #134 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 9 categories and Grok 4.1 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 46.1 to 29.5.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index50.341.5
Released2026-02-172025-11-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5719

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.3 (#67), Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
LMArena WebDev15221214
LMArena Coding15041445
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#28), Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
Cybench—39%
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#45), Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
LMArena Hard Prompts14841435
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA46.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.24—
ForecastBench62—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 52.9 (#49), Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
LMArena Math14621422
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.7 (#65), Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
LMArena Expert15001417
GPQA Diamond87.4%—
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#68), Grok 4.1: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.4 (#41), Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
LMArena Non-English14401425
LMArena Chinese14911465
LMArena French14651448
LMArena German14281446
LMArena Japanese14201397
LMArena Korean14111407
LMArena Russian14401434
LMArena Spanish14641438

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.4 (#25), Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
LMArena Instruction Following14751400

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#44), Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
LMArena Longer Query14791416

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.2 (#22), Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 4.1
LMArena Text14581437
LMArena Creative Writing14351411
LMArena Multi-Turn14641437
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1810—
EQ-Bench 41207—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Grok 4.1?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 41.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Grok 4.1 better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 33.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Grok 4.1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.1 has 19.

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