Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Grok 4.7

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.1 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Grok 4.7 xAI

53.1

Rank #37 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.7 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4.7 leads 57.8 to 19.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 98.1% for Grok 4.7.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Grok 4.7 specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index34.653.1
Released2024-06-202026-09-21
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—500K
Max output—500K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked6039

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Grok 4.7: 58.0 (#18)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Coding13421427
FrontierCode—47.6%
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
CursorBench—46.3%
LMArena WebDev—1639
FrontierSWE—29.5%
SciCode—57.8%
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Grok 4.7: 36.7 (#37)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
APEX-Agents—54.6%
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
GDP.pdf—22.8%
METR Time Horizons45.2%—
Vending-Bench 2—10,537

Reasoning Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Grok 4.7: 49.1 (#40)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Hard Prompts13051413
DTBench67.8%96%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55153.53
SimpleBench41.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)—76.8%
CritPt—18%
Chess Puzzles—38%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—29%
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
LMCA—49.4%
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Grok 4.7: 57.8 (#39)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%98.1%
LMArena Math13071407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—53%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
ProofBench—34%
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Grok 4.7: 62.8 (#22)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
GPQA Diamond55.3%92.7%
LMArena Expert12651422
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
SimpleQA Verified—56%
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Grok 4.7: 35.5 (#87)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Vision11251228
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—32.5%
Furniture Assembly—20.8%

Multilingual Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Grok 4.7: 50.8 (#116)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Non-English12831389
LMArena Chinese12721455
LMArena French13051455
LMArena Russian13061397
LMArena Spanish12901400
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—

Instruction Following Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Grok 4.7: 74.1 (#105)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Instruction Following12971404
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Grok 4.7: 43.1 (#104)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Longer Query13111413

Writing & Preference Grok 4.7 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Grok 4.7: 70.0 (#24)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4.7
LMArena Text12981399
LMArena Creative Writing12921391
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14512007
LMArena Multi-Turn13261393
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Grok 4.7?

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.1 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Grok 4.7 better for coding?

Grok 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.0 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Grok 4.7 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.7 has 39.

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