grok-4 vs claude-sonnet-4-6
Side-by-side comparison of grok-4 and claude-sonnet-4-6— benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. claude-sonnet-4-6 outperforms grok-4 on 6 of 7 shared benchmarks.
xAI Corp.
grok-4
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
256K
Model ID
xai/grok-4
claude-sonnet-4-6
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
grok-441.5%
claude-sonnet-4-651.7%
Coding Indexcoding
grok-440.5%
claude-sonnet-4-650.9%
Math Indexmath
grok-492.7%
claude-sonnet-4-6—
GPQA Diamondreasoning
grok-487.7%
claude-sonnet-4-687.5%
AIME 2025math
grok-492.7%
claude-sonnet-4-6—
LiveCodeBenchcoding
grok-481.9%
claude-sonnet-4-6—
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
grok-437.9%
claude-sonnet-4-653.0%
τ²-Benchagentic
grok-474.9%
claude-sonnet-4-675.7%
SciCodecoding
grok-445.7%
claude-sonnet-4-646.8%
MMLU Proknowledge
grok-486.6%
claude-sonnet-4-6—
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
grok-423.9%
claude-sonnet-4-630.0%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| grok-4 | claude-sonnet-4-6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $3.00 | $3.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $15.00 | $15.00 |
| Context window | 256K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | — | 64K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | — | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | Yes | Yes |
| Provider | xAI Corp. | Anthropic PBC |
Questions people ask
Is grok-4 better than claude-sonnet-4-6?
claude-sonnet-4-6 outperforms grok-4 on 6 of 7 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics — grok-4 and claude-sonnet-4-6 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper — grok-4 or claude-sonnet-4-6?
grok-4 and claude-sonnet-4-6 have identical combined pricing.
Can I use grok-4 and claude-sonnet-4-6 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "xai/grok-4" or "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
grok-4 supports up to 256K tokens of context. claude-sonnet-4-6 supports up to 1M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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