Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 offers 124.7K more tokens in context window than Grok 2. Grok 2 is $6.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4, released by Anthropic in May 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4 family that delivers a balance of performance and efficiency for coding, reasoning, and analytical tasks. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking support. Sonnet 4 targets development workflows, document analysis, and applications that benefit from the performance characteristics of the Claude 4 generation.
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.
9 months newer

Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-14
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Sonnet 4
Grok 2
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Sonnet 4
2025-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Grok 2
Claude Sonnet 4
Grok 2
Claude Sonnet 4
Grok 2
xAI