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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Grok‑1

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
xAI
Grok‑1
Overview
CompanyAnthropicxAI
Release dateOct 15 2025Nov 3 2023
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
73%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
73.3%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapGrok‑1 shipped 712 days before Claude Haiku 4.5

Which is better: Claude Haiku 4.5 or Grok‑1?

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads Grok‑1 on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Grok‑1 shipped 712 days before Claude Haiku 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Grok‑1 is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Haiku 4.5 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Haiku 4.5 released?
Claude Haiku 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Oct 15 2025.
When was Grok‑1 released?
Grok‑1 was released by xAI on Nov 3 2023.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Grok‑1 open source?
Grok‑1 is an open-source / open-weight model released by xAI. Claude Haiku 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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