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Grok vs Claude
Grok (xAI) vs Claude (Anthropic) — scored across 9 dimensions by our editorial team. Last reviewed 2026-05-08 and 2026-05-22.
Grok
xAI
X-integrated chatbot with an irreverent personality and real-time tweet access.
Pick Grok over Claude if you need: Real-time news or X/Twitter analysis.
Claude
Anthropic
A thoughtful, safety-focused assistant favoured for long-form writing and code.
Pick Claude over Grok if you need: Long-form writing or Coding.
Full comparison table
Dimension
Grok
xAI
Claude
Anthropic
Basics
Company
xAI
Anthropic
Released
2023-11-04
2023-03-14
Latest Version
Grok 4
Claude 4.5 Sonnet
Capabilities
Text Generation
8.0
10.0
Code Generation
8.0
10.0
Image Understanding
8.0
8.0
Web Browsing
9.0
7.0
Multimodal
8.0
8.0
Long Context
8.0
10.0
Reasoning
8.0
9.0
Fit
Best Use Cases
Real-time newsX/Twitter analysisCasual chat
Long-form writingCodingDocument analysisResearch
Best For
X power usersJournalists tracking trends
WritersDevelopersResearchersLawyers
Pricing
Free Tier
Limited Grok 4 access in X
Limited Claude 4.5 Sonnet access
Paid Plan
X Premium+: $40/month
Pro: $20/month
API Pricing
From $3/M input tokens
From $3/M input tokens (Sonnet)
Enterprise
Custom
Team $25/user, Enterprise custom
Benchmarks
MMLU Score
86
89
HumanEval (Coding)
88
94
GSM8K (Math)
92
96
Context Window
128K tokens
200K tokens
Languages
English
high
high
Chinese
medium
medium
Multilingual
medium
high
Editorial
Overall Score
8.4
9.4
Value for Money
8.0
9.0
Accuracy
8.3
9.5
Ease of Use
9.0
9.0
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