# Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 4.1

> Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-7-sonnet-vs-grok-4-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Grok 4.1 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.1 leads 29.5 to 18.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Cybench: 20% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 39% for Grok 4.1.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 41.5 |
| Rank | 164 | 134 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136)
- Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1445 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1214 |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50)
- Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 20% | 39% |
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277)
- Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1435 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153)
- Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1422 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130)
- Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95)
- Grok 4.1: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179)
- Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1425 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1446 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | 1397 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 1407 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | 1438 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125)
- Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1400 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10)
- Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1416 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150)
- Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1411 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1437 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Grok 4.1?

Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Grok 4.1 better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 33.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Grok 4.1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.1 has 19.