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Claude Sonnet 5vsGrok 4.5
Grok 4.5 leads 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. Grok 4.5 is 1.5x cheaper per token. Claude Sonnet 5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
2 – 3
Grok 4.5 leads
Cheaper per token
Grok 4.5
1.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 5
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · xAI
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-30
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
5 shared · 3 only Claude Sonnet 5 · 1 only Grok 4.5| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Grok 4.5 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 5 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% ↗epoch | 93.4% ↗epoch | -2.9 pt | Grok 4.5 |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 29.3% ↗epoch | 24.4% ↗epoch | +4.9 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 65.6% ↗epoch | 57.2% ↗epoch | +8.4 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 94.7% ↗epoch | 97.8% ↗epoch | -3.1 pt | Grok 4.5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.7% ↗epoch | 48.3% ↗epoch | -14.6 pt | Grok 4.5 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 5 reports · 3 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 85.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 43.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 57.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Grok 4.5 reports · 1 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1450.1 ↗ | — | — |
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 5 minus Grok 4.5 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 5 | Grok 4.5 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 500K tokens | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $2 ↗ | Tie |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $6 ↗ | Grok 4.5 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | $0.3 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $8 | Grok 4.5 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-06-30 | 2026-07-08 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 6 | — |
Reliability
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