# Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Grok 4.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Grok 4.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-4-6-vs-grok-4-5
- Last updated: October 7, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Sonnet 4.6 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Grok 4.5 leads overall 63.97 to 55.33.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 55.1 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 79.5 for Grok 4.5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) in Agentic, with scores of 57.3% and 67.8%.
- Grok 4.5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Grok 4.5 also has the larger context window at 500K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Grok 4.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | xAI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 500K |
| Overall Score | 55.33 | 63.97 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 28 | 17 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | $2.00 / $6.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Grok 4.5
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 43.9 (Supported · #55/122)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 57.6 (Supported · #29/122)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 67.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 65.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 62.92% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 8.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 36.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 57.3% | 67.8% | Grok 4.5 |
| ApprenticeBench | 2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | Coming soon | 15.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 83.3% | Coming soon |
| deepSwe | Coming soon | 53% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Grok 4.5
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 46.3 (Supported · #50/146)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 57.7 (Supported · #27/146)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | 60.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 51.48% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 48.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 24.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 82.1% | 87.4% | Grok 4.5 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 77.4% | 86.6% | Grok 4.5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 83.3% | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | Coming soon | 66.7% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | Coming soon | 23.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 59.2 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 50.4 (#28/28)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 58.3% | 52.6% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 86.00% | 85.67% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| ARC-AGI-3 | Coming soon | 0.3% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 55.1 (#34/49)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 79.5 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Grok 4.5
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 53.6 (Supported · #58/174)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 67 (Supported · #19/174)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 49% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 85.6% | 92.9% | Grok 4.5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.3% | 89.2% | Grok 4.5 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 46.6 (#87/125)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 48.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Grok 4.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 32.400% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 8.300% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Grok 4.5?

Grok 4.5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Grok 4.5?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 55.1 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 79.5 for Grok 4.5.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 currently has 28 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Grok 4.5 cover on BenchLM?

Grok 4.5 currently has 17 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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