Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4.5 leads with 66.1% higher average benchmark score. Claude Opus 4.5 offers 116.5K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Grok 3 mini is $29.20 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Opus 4.5 is available on 3 providers. Overall, Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5, released by Anthropic in November 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4.5 family built for demanding reasoning tasks, advanced code generation, and complex agentic workflows. It features a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking with configurable effort levels. Opus 4.5 targets deep analytical work, multi-step tool orchestration, and applications requiring sustained reasoning across long, complex tasks.
xAI
Grok 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
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Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17

Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
2025-11-01
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Grok 3 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Grok 3 mini
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude Opus 4.5
Grok 3 mini
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2025-05
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Grok 3 mini
Claude Opus 4.5
Grok 3 mini
Claude Opus 4.5
Grok 3 mini
xAI