Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Grok 4 Heavy

Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#20); Grok 4 Heavy does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Grok 4 Heavy xAI

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok 4 Heavy specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Grok 4 Heavy
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Noometry Index58.2—
Released2026-02-042025-07-10
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked681

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4 Heavy
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
LMArena Coding1536—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4 Heavy
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4 Heavy
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1527—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4 Heavy
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4 Heavy
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4 Heavy
LMArena Non-English1489—
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4 Heavy
LMArena Instruction Following1523—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4 Heavy
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Grok 4 Heavy
LMArena Text1503—
LMArena Creative Writing1505—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—
LMArena Multi-Turn1513—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Grok 4 Heavy?

Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#20); Grok 4 Heavy does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok 4 Heavy share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 Heavy has 1.

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