Claude 3 Opus vs Grok 4 Heavy
Anthropic Claude 3 Opus | SpaceXAI Grok 4 Heavy | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | SpaceXAI |
| Release date | Mar 4 2024 | Jul 9 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Benchmarks | ||
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 33% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 50.4% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude 3 Opus shipped 492 days before Grok 4 Heavy | |
Which is better: Claude 3 Opus or Grok 4 Heavy?
Claude 3 Opus and Grok 4 Heavy don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 3 Opus shipped 492 days before Grok 4 Heavy, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3 Opus and Grok 4 Heavy don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3 Opus was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
Grok 4 Heavy was released by SpaceXAI on Jul 9 2025.
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