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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Grok 4

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude 3.5 Sonnet wins:

  • No clear advantages in compared metrics

Grok 4 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Has reasoning mode
Price Advantage
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Benchmark Advantage
Grok 4
Context Window
Grok 4
Speed
Grok 4

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4Winner
Input (per 1M tokens)$3.00$3.00Tie
Output (per 1M tokens)$15.00$15.00Tie
Cache Read (per 1M)$0.60$0.75 Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Cache Write (per 1M)$7.50N/A Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Both models have similar overall pricing.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Providers

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Grok 4 Providers

No provider data available

Benchmark Comparison

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Benchmarks Compared
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet Wins
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Grok 4 Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4Winner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
15.941.5
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
30.240.5
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
-92.7-
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
77.286.6
GPQA
Graduate-level science
59.987.7
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
38.181.9
Aider
Real-world code editing
84.279.6
AIME
Competition math
15.794.3
Grok 4 significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
200,000
tokens
Grok 4
256,000
tokens
Grok 4 has a 22% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4Winner
Tokens/second0.0 tok/s49.7 tok/s
Time to First Token0.00s9.80s
Grok 4 responds Infinity% faster on average.

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude 3.5 SonnetGrok 4
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicXai
ReleasedOct 2024Jul 2025

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Modalities

Input
textimagefile
Output
text

Grok 4 Modalities

Input
imagetext
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has cheaper input pricing at $3.00/M tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has cheaper output pricing at $15.00/M tokens.
Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 40.5, compared to Claude 3.5 Sonnet's score of 30.2.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet has a 200,000 token context window, while Grok 4 has a 256,000 token context window.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports vision. Grok 4 supports vision.