Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.6 vs Grok-2 (Dec 2024)
Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 62.7 to 19.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.4% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 11.5% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024).
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 58.3 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2026-02-04 | 2024-08-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $25 | — |
| Results tracked | 68 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 32.9 (#254)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 78% | 22.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1535 | 1288 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.7% | — |
| FrontierCode | 26.6% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 75.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1546 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 72% | — |
| GSO | 41.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 46.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 996.5 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.47 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 79.8% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 46.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 4.2% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 27.3% | — |
| Cybench | 93% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 55.3% | — |
| GBAEval | 44.1% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1253 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 78.9% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 8,018 | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.4 (#294)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 67.6% | 22.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1527 | 1272 |
| DTBench | 91.2% | 65.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.36 | 130.48 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 69.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 83.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 92.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 94% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 17% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 7.6% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 80.6% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 12.7% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 54.8% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 25% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 54.5% |
| LMCA | 55.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 60 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 54.3% |
Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 19.6 (#278)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 94.4% | 11.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1517 | 1283 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 40.7% | 0.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 66% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 26.8% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 78.5% | — |
| ProofBench | 50% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 54.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.5% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 22.9% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#225)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% | 53.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1546 | 1254 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 34.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 47% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 20.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1316 | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 28.3% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1507 | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1490 | 1282 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1551 | 1289 |
| LMArena French | 1513 | 1317 |
| LMArena German | 1504 | 1287 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1484 | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | 1465 | 1237 |
| LMArena Russian | 1497 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1512 | 1281 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 67.1 (#197)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1523 | 1270 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 69.6% |
Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.7 (#186)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1520 | 1276 |
| CL-bench | 20.7% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 17% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.8 (#192)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1504 | 1305 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1506 | 1284 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1514 | 1290 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 63.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1809 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1223 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 45.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Grok-2 (Dec 2024)?
Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34.