BenchLeader

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Grok 4.5

Verdict
  • Claude Opus 4.7 leads on quality: 65.5 vs 63.4.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, instruction following, maths, multimodal.
  • Grok 4.5 is stronger in knowledge, long context, reasoning.
  • Grok 4.5 is 3.3× cheaper ($3.00 vs $10.00 per 1M blended).
MetricClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.5
BenchLeader Index65.563.4
Agents & tools score69.458.6
Coding score64.859.9
Composite score80.366.0
Human preference score68.866.9
Instruction following score58.5
Knowledge score66.476.0
Long context score65.966.2
Maths score65.2
Multimodal score65.764.8
Reasoning score66.368.9
Blended price $/M$10.00$3.00
Output speed46 tok/s56 tok/s
Time to first answer21.2 s12.7 s
Context window1M500k
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%
Terminal-Bench80.2%
SimpleBench61.7%70.0%
WeirdML76.4%46.4%
APEX-Agents34.2%
FrontierCode38.5%42.4%
GSO-Bench44.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.3153.9
LMArena Text14951471
LMArena Hard Prompts15191495
LMArena Coding15471523
LMArena WebDev15571556
LMArena Vision13171291
LMArena Agent3.9
LiveBench75.8%
LiveBench Reasoning87.2%
LiveBench Coding68.6%
LiveBench Agentic Coding56.5%
LiveBench Mathematics90.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis73.0%
LiveBench Language82.8%
AA Intelligence Index40.739.1
IFBench58.6%
AA-LCR78.7%79.3%
MMMU-Pro78.8%80.4%
AA-Omniscience27.325.3
Terminal-Bench Hard51.5%
GPQA Diamond (AA)91.4%93.1%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)42.3%42.7%
SciCode (AA)55.0%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)88.6%
AIME (Vals)96.3%
LiveCodeBench85.1%
MMLU-Pro89.9%
IOI47.1%
LegalBench85.3%
CorpFin66.1%
TaxEval75.3%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)68.5%
SWE-bench (Vals)82.0%
GPQA Diamond (Vals)90.2%
Vals Index56.1
HiL-Bench41.7%
EQ-Bench 41311
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%83.5%

Data as of 2026-09-09. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.