Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 3

Compare Claude 3.7 Sonnet by Anthropic against Grok 3 by xAI, in 16 community votes, claude 3.7 sonnet wins 53% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 128K, tested across 53 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.

Which is better, Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Grok 3?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the better choice overall, winning 53% of 16 blind community votes on Rival. Context windows: 200K vs 128K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.

Key Differences Between Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Grok 3

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is made by anthropic while Grok 3 is from xai. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has a 200K token context window compared to Grok 3's 128K. In community voting, In 16 community votes, Claude 3.7 Sonnet wins 53% of head-to-head duels.

In 16 community votes, Claude 3.7 Sonnet wins 53% of head-to-head duels. Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads in Image Generation, while Grok 3 leads in Reasoning. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 16+ human preference judgments for this pair.

Reasoning: Grok 3 wins 67% of votes
Image Generation: Claude 3.7 Sonnet wins 100% of votes
Web Design: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Grok 3 are tied
Our Verdict
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Claude 3.7 SonnetWinner
Grok 3
Grok 3Runner-up

Claude 3.7 Sonnet has the edge overall. In 16 blind votes, Claude 3.7 Sonnet wins 53% of the time.

Pick Claude 3.7 Sonnet for Image Generation. Pick Grok 3 for Reasoning.

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Style Comparison

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80%

Grok 3 uses 3.9x more emoji

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Grok 3
62%Vocabulary49%
35wSentence Length18w
0.99Hedging0.94
1.2Bold2.5
4.3Lists3.0
0.00Emoji0.04
1.78Headings0.65
0.23Transitions0.08
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