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Claude Sonnet 5.5vs
Grok 4.6
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 18 of 23 shared benchmarks. Grok 4.6 is 1.5x cheaper per token. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
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Shared benchmarks
18 – 4
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads · 1 tied
Cheaper per token
Grok 4.6
1.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 5.5
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · xAI
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic · released 2026-09-28
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
23 shared · 6 only Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 15 only Grok 4.6| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Grok 4.6 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 23 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 95.6% ↗epoch run | 94% ↗epoch run | +1.6 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| LMArena Elo | 1471 ↗ | 1453.8 ↗ | +17.2 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | 75.5% ↗ | 65.3% ↗ | +10.2 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 80.5% ↗epoch run | 31.7% ↗epoch run | +48.8 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 88.8% ↗epoch run | 66% ↗epoch run | +22.8 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs) | 61.9% ↗ | 25.3% ↗ | +36.6 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run) | 75% ↗epoch run | 40% ↗epoch run | +35 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench) | 56.3% ↗ | 57% ↗ | -0.7 pt | Grok 4.6 |
| LiveBench Coding (LiveBench) | 91.4% ↗ | 76.8% ↗ | +14.6 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench) | 78.6% ↗ | 73.9% ↗ | +4.7 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench) | 70.5% ↗ | 71.9% ↗ | -1.4 pt | Grok 4.6 |
| LiveBench Language (LiveBench) | 83.4% ↗ | 83.7% ↗ | -0.3 pt | Grok 4.6 |
| LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench) | 96.7% ↗ | 92.6% ↗ | +4.1 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench) | 91.6% ↗ | 90.5% ↗ | +1.1 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| LMArena Agent (LMArena) | 0.1252 ↗ | 0.0128 ↗ | +0.1 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| LMArena Vision (LMArena) | 1268.3 ↗ | 1263.5 ↗ | +4.8 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1786.3 ↗ | 1619.5 ↗ | +166.8 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 65% ↗epoch run | 34% ↗epoch run | +31 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 100% ↗epoch run | 99.2% ↗epoch run | +0.8 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 51.8% ↗ | 28.9% ↗ | +22.9 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 75.9% ↗ | 75.9% ↗ | 0 | Tie |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46.5% ↗epoch run | 49.3% ↗epoch run | -2.8 pt | Grok 4.6 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI) | 64.1% ↗ | 17.2% ↗ | +46.9 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 reports · 6 | ||||
| Chartography (no tools) | 61.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 55.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | 46.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 64.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld 2.1 (partial) | 80.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 70.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Grok 4.6 reports · 15 | ||||
| AA-Briefcase | not reported | 1577 ↗ | — | — |
| APEX-Agents | not reported | 57.5% ↗ | — | — |
| APEX-SWE | not reported | 56.4% ↗ | — | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | not reported | 61 ↗ | — | — |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 40% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| CursorBench 3.2 | not reported | 69.9% ↗ | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | not reported | 65.9% ↗ | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve) | not reported | 67.5% ↗ | — | — |
| EBR-bench (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 30.5% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Extended) | not reported | 61.3% ↗ | — | — |
| GDPVal-AA v2 | not reported | 1753 ↗ | — | — |
| Harvey LAB (Vals) | not reported | 15.8% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | not reported | 26% ↗ | — | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | not reported | 9047.03 ↗ | — | — |
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | not reported | 67.3% ↗ | — | — |
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 5.5 minus Grok 4.6 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 5.5 | Grok 4.6 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 500K tokens | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $2 ↗ | Tie |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $6 ↗ | Grok 4.6 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | $0.5 ↗ | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $8 | Grok 4.6 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-09-28 | 2026-08-12 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 29 | 43 | — |
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