Claude 3 OpusvsGrok 4.20 Beta
Claude 3 Opus | Grok 4.20 Beta | |
|---|---|---|
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins · base tier | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $1.25 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $2.50 |
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again. | — | $0.20 |
| Benchmarks | ||
SWE-Bench VerifiedCoding — Real 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% | 76.7% |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
BullshitBench v2Nonsense detection — Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 56% |
ARC-AGI-2Abstract reasoning — Puzzle-style tests of abstract reasoning and pattern-finding — the kind of thing people find easy but AIs often struggle with. Higher is better. | — | 53.3% |
GPQA DiamondScience — Graduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 50.4% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | SpaceXAI |
| Release date | Mar 4 2024 | Feb 17 2026 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
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Frequently asked questions
Grok 4.20 Beta leads Claude 3 Opus on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (SWE-Bench Verified). Only Grok 4.20 Beta has a verified first-party API price: $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3 Opus shipped 715 days before Grok 4.20 Beta, 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.
On SWE-Bench Verified, Grok 4.20 Beta leads at 76.7% vs Claude 3 Opus at 33%.
Claude 3 Opus was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
Grok 4.20 Beta was released by SpaceXAI on Feb 17 2026.
Grok 4.20 Beta leads on SWE-Bench Verified — Claude 3 Opus 33% vs Grok 4.20 Beta 76.7%.
Only Grok 4.20 Beta has a verified first-party API price: $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude 3 Opus. Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified on August 18, 2026.