Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-3 Mini leads with 14.5% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 192.0K more tokens in context window than Grok-3 Mini. Grok-3 Mini is $17.20 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Grok-3 Mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
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.
3 months newer

Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

Grok-3 Mini
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

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

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Grok-3 Mini

Claude Sonnet 4

Grok-3 Mini

Grok-3 Mini
xAI