Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4 Fast leads with 15.9% higher average benchmark score. Grok 4 Fast offers 1.7M more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4. Grok 4 Fast is $17.30 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Grok 4 Fast 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 4 Fast is a multimodal language model developed by xAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.0% across 7 benchmarks. It excels particularly in SimpleQA (95.0%), HMMT 2025 (93.3%), AIME 2025 (92.0%). With a 2.0M token context window, it can handle extensive documents and complex multi-turn conversations. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
3 months newer

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22

Grok 4 Fast
xAI
2025-08-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

Grok 4 Fast
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

Grok 4 Fast
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Grok 4 Fast

Claude Sonnet 4

Grok 4 Fast

Grok 4 Fast
xAI