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Claude Opus 5.5vsGrok 4.1 Fast Reasoning

Claude Opus 5.5 leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning is 34.3x cheaper per token. Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning has the larger context window (2M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
4 – 0
Claude Opus 5.5 leads
Cheaper per token
Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
34.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
2M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · xAI
Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic · released 2026-09-22
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$4 ↗
Output /1M
$20 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.2
Scores
34 · 9 core
Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
xAI · released 2025-11-19
text
Context
2M
Max out
—
Input /1M
$0.2 ↗
Output /1M
$0.5 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.05
Scores
7 · 3 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Grok 4.1 Fast ReasoningΔEdge
Reported by both · 4
LMArena Elo1503.7 ↗1430.3 ↗+73.4Claude Opus 5.5
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1815.4 ↗1241.3 ↗+574.1Claude Opus 5.5
SAGE (Vals AI)45.8% ↗31.3% ↗+14.5 ptClaude Opus 5.5
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)9235.25 ↗1106.63 ↗+8128.6Claude Opus 5.5
Only Claude Opus 5.5 reports · 30
GPQA Diamond90.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)73.5% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench 1.0.640% ↗not reported——
Chartography (with tools)89% ↗not reported——
CursorBench 4.057.8% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)71.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)54.4% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)95% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)91.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)62.3% ↗not reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)83.3% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GDPval-AA v2.11846 ↗not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)67.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)71.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)89.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)80.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)67% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)86.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)97.1% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)92.2% ↗not reported——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.1382 ↗not reported——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)77.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)71% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OSWorld 2.0 (partial)81.8% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)100% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)88.4% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified72.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.066.4% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)65.2% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench Science 0.158.7% ↗not reported——
Only Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning reports · 3
FRAMES (Agent Tools API)not reported87.6% ↗——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)not reported1196.3 ↗——
Research-Eval Reka (Agent Tools API)not reported63.9% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 5.5 minus Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Opus 5.5Grok 4.1 Fast ReasoningEdge
Context window1M tokens2M tokensGrok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Max output128K tokens——
Input price / 1M$4 ↗$0.2 ↗Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Output price / 1M$20 ↗$0.5 ↗Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Cached input / 1M$0.2 ↗$0.05 ↗Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$24$0.7Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Modalitiestext · visiontextClaude Opus 5.5
Released2026-09-222025-11-19—
Cited benchmark scores347—
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