Compare / Claude Sonnet 5 vs Grok 4.3

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Grok 4.3

22 results from 5 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · profile
Grok 4.3
xAI · profile
Results compared
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BenchmarkMetricClaude Sonnet 5Grok 4.3
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,1961,193
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4521,428
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4651,440
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,4351,423
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,5121,452
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4671,415
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4621,442
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,4521,424
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score 71.542.2
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 38.224.9
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 91.1%90.1%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 41.3%37.2%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 82.0%75.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedSciCode% of problems 54.3%48.3%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks 80.5%39.7%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks 14.1%0.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ-bench banking% of tasks 37.3%12.4%
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reportedCorrect answers% of questions 33.7%33.2%
UGI LeaderboardreportedRequested-length error% off the requested word count 3.0%21.0%
UGI LeaderboardreportedStyle adherencescore from 0 to 1 0.380.34
UGI LeaderboardreportedWriting scorescore out of 100 62.757.7
Vending-Bench 2reportedMoney after a yearUS dollars $6,377.70$35.26

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.