Model comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs Grok-2 (Dec 2024)

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic

25.9

Rank #340 Confirmed

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) xAI

33.7

Rank #239 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads 48.6 to 29.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 14.9% for Claude 3 Haiku and 63.5% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024).

Side by side

Claude 3 Haiku and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) specifications
Claude 3 HaikuGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index25.933.7
Released2024-03-072024-08-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3734

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Category by category

Coding Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
WeirdML9.8%22.2%
LMArena Coding11991287
BigCodeBench Instruct39.4%—
LiveBench Coding—46.4%
BigCodeBench Complete50.1%—
CadEval12%—
HumanEval+68.9%—
MBPP+68.8%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Hard Prompts11741272
DTBench50.1%65.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.35130.48
SimpleBench—22.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark34.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning—54.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—54.5%
LMCA8.8%—
ForecastBench53.2—
LiveBench—54.3%
WinoGrande74.2%—

Math Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.8%11.5%
LMArena Math11881283
MATH Level 514.9%63.5%
LiveBench Math—54.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
GPQA Diamond36.3%53.8%
Confabulations34.2%20.1%
LMArena Expert11481254
MMLU73.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Vision950—
ScienceQA72%—

Multilingual Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Non-English11781282
LMArena Chinese11551289
LMArena French11951318
LMArena German11741287
LMArena Japanese11021244
LMArena Korean11091237
LMArena Russian12041286
LMArena Spanish11661281

Instruction Following Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following11731270
LiveBench Instruction Following—69.6%

Long Context Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Longer Query11901276

Writing & Preference Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuGrok-2 (Dec 2024)
LMArena Text11951305
LMArena Creative Writing11571284
LMArena Multi-Turn11901290
Short-Story Creative Writing—63.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing717—
LiveBench Language—45.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Grok-2 (Dec 2024)?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Haiku or Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better for coding?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.3 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34.

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