Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-3 Mini leads with 43.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Sonnet offers 264.0K more tokens in context window than Grok-3 Mini. Grok-3 Mini is $17.20 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, Grok-3 Mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet was introduced as the balanced middle tier of the Claude 3 family, offering a combination of strong capabilities and operational speed. Designed to provide an optimal tradeoff between intelligence and performance for everyday tasks, it served as a versatile solution for a wide range of enterprise and consumer applications.
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 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-02-29

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

Claude 3 Sonnet

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

Claude 3 Sonnet

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

Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Sonnet

Grok-3 Mini

Claude 3 Sonnet

Grok-3 Mini

Grok-3 Mini
xAI