Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 68.8K more tokens in context window than Grok 2. Grok 2 is $6.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Sonnet, updated by Anthropic in October 2024 (originally released June 2024), is a large language model from the Claude 3.5 family that delivered strong performance in coding, reasoning, and instruction-following at its release. It supports a 200K token context window, 8K maximum output tokens, and native image understanding including screenshot analysis and document comprehension. Claude 3.5 Sonnet targets general-purpose development tasks, document analysis, and applications requiring reliable instruction following with visual input support.
xAI
Grok 2, released by xAI in August 2024, is a large language model with 131K token context window and native image understanding, developed with access to real-time information from the X platform. It features multimodal input capabilities and improved reasoning over its predecessor. Grok 2 targets conversational assistants, image analysis, and real-time information retrieval tasks via the xAI API.
2 months newer

Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Grok 2
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Grok 2
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Grok 2
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Grok 2
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Grok 2
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Grok 2
xAI