Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Claude Opus 4.1 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 72.7% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMMLU (89.5%), TAU-bench Retail (82.4%), GPQA (80.9%). It supports a 232K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 4 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.
xAI
Grok-2 mini is a multimodal language model developed by xAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 74.1% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in DocVQA (93.2%), MMLU (86.2%), HumanEval (85.7%). As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2024, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
11 months newer
Grok-2 mini
xAI
2024-08-13
Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
2025-08-05
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 15 common benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.1
Grok-2 mini
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval
Claude Opus 4.1
Grok-2 mini
Claude Opus 4.1
Grok-2 mini
Grok-2 mini