Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.6 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) xAI

48.6

Rank #54 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads 52.3 to 18.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 0.9% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 65.1% for Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning).

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index39.548.6
Released2025-02-242026-02-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—30K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2.50
Results tracked5846

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 42.1 (#112)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Coding13611459
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
LMArena WebDev—1375
GSO3.8%—
WeirdML—52.3%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—
ALE-Bench—1,150

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 34.4 (#46)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
Terminal-Bench—57.3%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
τ²-bench Banking—18%
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
LMArena Search—1189
METR Time Horizons60%—
Vending-Bench 2—4,663

Reasoning Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 52.3 (#32)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
ARC-AGI-20.9%65.1%
ARC-AGI-128.6%89.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331451
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16151.98
ForecastBench61.861.4
SimpleBench46.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—75%
NYT Connections (extended)—85.4%
Chess Puzzles—24%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
Thematic Generalization—63.8%
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
DTBench—90.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—38.7%
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 48.2 (#65)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%92.2%
LMArena Math13371455
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—44.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
ProofBench—14%
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 52.8 (#60)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
GPQA Diamond79.7%89.3%
LMArena Expert13211439
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
SimpleQA Verified—30.2%
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 33.3 (#98)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Vision11691263
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—0%
LMArena Document—1416
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 54.5 (#40)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Non-English12961441
LMArena Chinese12991481
LMArena French13031476
LMArena German13011465
LMArena Japanese12671449
LMArena Korean12491417
LMArena Russian13111458
LMArena Spanish12981443

Instruction Following Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 74.8 (#83)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Instruction Following13521420
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 45.5 (#34)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Longer Query13731437
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
CL-bench—22.2%
CL-bench Life—11.9%

Writing & Preference Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 65.7 (#44)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)
LMArena Text13141451
LMArena Creative Writing13321438
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14121574
LMArena Multi-Turn13391456
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.6 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) better for coding?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) has 46.

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