Compare Claude Opus 4.1 from Anthropic and Grok 4.5 from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Claude Opus 4.1
Grok 4.5Opus 4.1 is an upgraded version of Claude Opus 4, with improvements mainly in agent tasks, practical coding, and reasoning. Compared to Opus 4, there is a slight improvement in software engineering accuracy; Opus 4.1 has higher accuracy at 74.5%.
Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
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Grok 4.5: $6.00/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1: $82.50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Grok 4.5: 1523; Claude Opus 4.1: 1505 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Claude Opus 4.1: 1.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Claude Opus 4.1 accepts 200,000 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.1 and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.
Claude Opus 4.1 at 40.6 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 28.9 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Claude Opus 4.1 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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