Claude 3 OpusvsGrok Code Fast 1
Claude 3 Opus | Grok Code Fast 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | — | $1.00 |
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. | — | $2.00 |
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% | 70.8% |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
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 | Aug 28 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
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Frequently asked questions
Grok Code Fast 1 leads Claude 3 Opus on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (SWE-Bench Verified). Only Grok Code Fast 1 has a verified first-party API price: $1.00 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3 Opus shipped 542 days before Grok Code Fast 1, 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 Code Fast 1 leads at 70.8% vs Claude 3 Opus at 33%.
Claude 3 Opus was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
Grok Code Fast 1 was released by SpaceXAI on Aug 28 2025.
Grok Code Fast 1 leads on SWE-Bench Verified — Claude 3 Opus 33% vs Grok Code Fast 1 70.8%.
Only Grok Code Fast 1 has a verified first-party API price: $1.00 per million input tokens and $2.00 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.