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Claude Sonnet 4.6vsGrok 4 Fast Reasoning
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Grok 4 Fast Reasoning is 25.7x cheaper per token. Grok 4 Fast Reasoning has the larger context window (2M tokens).
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Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads
Cheaper per token
Grok 4 Fast Reasoning
25.7x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Grok 4 Fast Reasoning
2M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · xAI
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · released 2026-02-17
textvision
Grok 4 Fast Reasoning
xAI · released 2025-09-19
text
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 16 only Claude Sonnet 4.6 · 10 only Grok 4 Fast Reasoning| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 89.9% ↗ | 85.7% ↗ | +4.2 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 33.2% ↗ | 20% ↗ | +13.2 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4.6 reports · 16 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1458.3 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 58.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA | 1633 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 49% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 61.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 89.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 74.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 75.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 85.8% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 35.5% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 75.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 91.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 97.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Grok 4 Fast Reasoning reports · 10 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 92% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp | not reported | 44.9% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp (zh) | not reported | 51.2% ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT 2025 (no tools) | not reported | 93.3% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench (Jan-May) | not reported | 80% ↗ | — | — |
| Reka Research Eval | not reported | 66% ↗ | — | — |
| Search Arena Elo | not reported | 1163 ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleQA | not reported | 95% ↗ | — | — |
| X Bench Deepsearch (zh) | not reported | 74% ↗ | — | — |
| X Browse | not reported | 58% ↗ | — | — |
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 Sonnet 4.6 minus Grok 4 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
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 2M tokens | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $0.2 ↗ | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $0.5 ↗ | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.05 ↗ | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $0.7 | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| Released | 2026-02-17 | 2025-09-19 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 19 | 12 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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