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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Grok‑1

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5
xAI
Grok‑1
Overview
CompanyAnthropicxAI
Release dateNov 24 2025Nov 3 2023
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
87%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
80.9%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapGrok‑1 shipped 752 days before Claude Opus 4.5

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

Claude Opus 4.5 leads Grok‑1 on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Grok‑1 shipped 752 days before Claude Opus 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Grok‑1 is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Opus 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 Opus 4.5 released?
Claude Opus 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Nov 24 2025.
When was Grok‑1 released?
Grok‑1 was released by xAI on Nov 3 2023.
Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Grok‑1 open source?
Grok‑1 is an open-source / open-weight model released by xAI. Claude Opus 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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