Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-3 Mini leads with 33.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus offers 264.0K more tokens in context window than Grok-3 Mini. Grok-3 Mini is $89.20 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus is available on 3 providers. Overall, Grok-3 Mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
xAI
Grok 3 Mini was developed as an efficient version of Grok 3, designed to bring next-generation capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide strong performance with practical efficiency, it extends Grok 3's innovations to broader application scenarios.
11 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Grok-3 Mini
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Grok-3 Mini
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Grok-3 Mini

Claude 3 Opus

Grok-3 Mini

Grok-3 Mini
xAI