Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet leads with 20.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.8% across 11 benchmarks. It excels particularly in ARC-C (93.2%), GSM8k (92.3%), HellaSwag (89.0%). It supports a 400K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 3 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2024, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.
xAI
Grok-4 Heavy is a multimodal language model developed by xAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 79.5% across 6 benchmarks. It excels particularly in AIME 2025 (100.0%), HMMT25 (96.7%), GPQA (88.4%). As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
1 year newer
Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-02-29
Grok-4 Heavy
xAI
2025-07-09
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 16 common benchmarks
Claude 3 Sonnet
Grok-4 Heavy
Grok-4 Heavy
2024-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
Claude 3 Sonnet
Grok-4 Heavy
Claude 3 Sonnet
Grok-4 Heavy
Grok-4 Heavy