# Claude Opus 4.1 vs Grok 4.3

> Grok 4.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 41.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-opus-4-1-vs-grok-4-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 30

## Summary

- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 6 categories and Grok 4.3 in 4 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4.3 leads 46.0 to 22.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 12.6% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 42.8% for Grok 4.3.
- Grok 4.3 is cheaper at $1.25 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
- Grok 4.3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 41.0 | 43.8 |
| Rank | 142 | 86 |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $15 | $1.25 |
| Output $/M | $75 | $2.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73)
- Grok 4.3: 41.6 (#121)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1390 | 1357 |
| WeirdML | 45.9% | 49.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1479 | 1415 |
| ALE-Bench | 674.77 | 944.17 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% | — |
| SciCode | — | 47.3% |
| AlgoTune | 1.34 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41)
- Grok 4.3: 27.7 (#99)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Search | 1148 | 1165 |
| Terminal-Bench | 38% | — |
| GDPval | 43.6% | — |
| Cybench | 42% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 48.3% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 8% |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.8% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 35.26 |

## Reasoning

- Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76)
- Grok 4.3: 35.9 (#68)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | 25% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1396 |
| DTBench | 80% | 90.7% |
| LMCA | 37.1% | 38.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.12 | 149.16 |
| ForecastBench | 62 | 60.3 |
| SimpleBench | 60% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 55.2% |
| CritPt | — | 8% |
| EnigmaEval | 7.2% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 7.9% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 21% | — |

## Math

- Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277)
- Grok 4.3: 46.0 (#74)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 12.6% | 42.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 2.4% | 14.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 68.9% | 93.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1431 | 1388 |
| ProofBench | — | 11% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 7.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101)
- Grok 4.3: 52.5 (#62)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 77.3% | 88.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1439 | 1385 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 11.5% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 33.2% |
| Confabulations | 17.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 11.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119)
- Grok 4.3: 31.6 (#104)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1229 |
| VPCT | 35% | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 0% |

## Multilingual

- Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95)
- Grok 4.3: 50.5 (#120)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1405 | 1385 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1427 | 1422 |
| LMArena French | 1431 | 1412 |
| LMArena German | 1413 | 1395 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | 1379 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 1356 |
| LMArena Russian | 1422 | 1399 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1448 | 1398 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58)
- Grok 4.3: 72.1 (#140)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1435 | 1366 |

## Long Context

- Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63)
- Grok 4.3: 42.5 (#123)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1455 | 1393 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74)
- Grok 4.3: 58.5 (#118)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1419 | 1397 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1412 | 1380 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | 1406 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 84.7% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1075 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Grok 4.3?

Grok 4.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 41.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 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 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.

### Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Grok 4.3 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 41.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.3 does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Grok 4.3 share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.3 has 40.