Grok 4 vs. Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning)
Comparison between Grok 4 and Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning) across intelligence, price, speed, context window and more.
For details relating to our methodology, see our Methodology page.
| Intelligence | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 22* | 21* | |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 27% | 12% | |
| CritPt | 2% | ||
| AA-Omniscience | 2 | ||
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 68% | 69% | |
| Cost | |||
| Price per 1M Tokens | $4.20 | $11.55 | |
| Input Price per 1M Tokens | $3.00 | $15.00 | |
| Output Price per 1M Tokens | $15.00 | $75.00 | |
| Cache Hit Price per 1M Tokens | $1.50 | ||
| Token Use | |||
| Performance | |||
| Technical specifications | |||
| Context Window | 256k tokens~384 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | 200k tokens~300 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | |
| Release Date | July 2025 | May 2025 | |
| Knowledge Cutoff | March 2025 | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes | |
| Input modality | Supports: text and image | Supports: text and image | |
| Output modality | Supports: text | Supports: text | |
| Open Source (Weights) | No | No | |
* Estimated
Highlights
Speed
IntelligenceUpdated
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Intelligence Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic coding & terminal use
Coding
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Physics reasoning
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Long context reasoning
Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate
Agentic business operations
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Instruction following
Agentic tool use
Long-horizon agentic tasks
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Visual reasoning
AA-Omniscience
AA-Omniscience Index
Intelligence Index Comparisons
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Context Window
Context Window
Frequently Asked Questions
Grok 4 is more intelligent. Grok 4 scores 22 (estimated), compared with Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning) at 21 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
Grok 4 is cheaper. Grok 4 costs $4.20 per 1M tokens, compared with Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning) at $11.55 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).
Grok 4 has a larger context window. Grok 4 supports 260k tokens, compared with Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning) at 200k tokens.