Compare / Claude Opus 5 vs Grok 4.6

Claude Opus 5 vs Grok 4.6

25 results from 6 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · profile
Grok 4.6
xAI · profile
Results compared
25
Shared sources
6
BenchmarkMetricClaude Opus 5Grok 4.6
APEX-AgentsreportedTasks passed% of tasks 65.8%65.3%
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedConfirmed task successIPS effect estimate 0.10-0.03
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedPraise over complaintIPS effect estimate 0.18-0.00
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedSteerabilityIPS effect estimate 0.110.03
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedTool groundingIPS effect estimate 0.000.00
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4901,461
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4881,449
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4861,447
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,4721,445
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,5431,490
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4971,451
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4911,453
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,4821,446
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score 78.076.8
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 50.844.3
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 93.7%94.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 54.9%44.1%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 82.0%81.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedSciCode% of problems 56.4%56.5%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks 89.1%88.4%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks 49.0%21.2%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ-bench banking% of tasks 44.7%50.7%
GDP.pdfreportedProfessional document tasks% of rubric 24.0%17.2%
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reportedCorrect answers% of questions 59.9%49.3%
Vending-Bench 2reportedMoney after a yearUS dollars $11,181.87$9,047.03

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.