Claude 3 Opus vs Grok Code Fast 1
Compare Claude 3 Opus by Anthropic against Grok Code Fast 1 by xAI, context windows of 200K vs 256K, tested across 12 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude 3 Opus
Grok Code Fast 1
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Grok Code Fast 1 is 50x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3 Opus
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Grok Code Fast 1
Input
$0.20
75× cheaper
Output
$1.50
50× cheaper
Grok Code Fast 1 is cheaper on both — 75× input, 50× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
53%
Grok Code Fast 1 uses 280.1x more bold
Claude 3 Opus
Grok Code Fast 1
54%Vocabulary60%
14wSentence Length17w
0.48Hedging0.97
0.0Bold2.8
3.0Lists2.5
0.00Emoji0.06
0.00Headings0.89
0.06Transitions0.11
Based on 3 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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