# Claude Instant vs Grok 4.7

> Grok 4.7 has enough public results to be ranked (#37); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-grok-4-7
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.7 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.7 leads 49.1 to 19.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 96% for Grok 4.7.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 53.1 |
| Rank | — | 37 |
| Context | — | 500K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Grok 4.7: 58.0 (#18)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | — | 47.6% |
| CursorBench | — | 46.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1639 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 29.5% |
| SciCode | — | 57.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1427 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Instant: —
- Grok 4.7: 36.7 (#37)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 54.6% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 22.8% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 10,537 |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Grok 4.7: 49.1 (#40)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 96% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 153.53 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 76.8% |
| CritPt | — | 18% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 38% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1413 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 29% |
| LMCA | — | 49.4% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Grok 4.7: 57.8 (#39)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 53% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 98.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 34% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1407 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Grok 4.7: 62.8 (#22)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 92.7% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 56% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1422 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude Instant: —
- Grok 4.7: 35.5 (#87)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1228 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 32.5% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 20.8% |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Grok 4.7: 50.8 (#116)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1389 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1455 |
| LMArena French | — | 1455 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1397 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1400 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Grok 4.7: 74.1 (#105)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1404 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Grok 4.7: 43.1 (#104)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1413 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Grok 4.7: 70.0 (#24)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1399 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1391 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 2007 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1393 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Grok 4.7?

Grok 4.7 has enough public results to be ranked (#37); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Grok 4.7 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.7 has 39.