Claude Opus 4.6 vs Grok 4.1 Fast
Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Grok 4.1 Fast by xAI, in 13 community votes, claude opus 4.6 wins 64% of head-to-head duels, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Image Generation: Claude Opus 4.6 wins 100% of votes
Reasoning: Grok 4.1 Fast wins 67% of votes
Web Design: Grok 4.1 Fast wins 67% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6Winner
Grok 4.1 FastRunner-up
Pick Claude Opus 4.6. In 13 blind votes, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 64% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 for Image Generation. Pick Grok 4.1 Fast for Reasoning, Web Design.
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API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Grok 4.1 Fast
Input
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Output
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Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
32%
Claude Opus 4.6 uses 20.7x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.6
Grok 4.1 Fast
53%Vocabulary67%
35wSentence Length15w
0.68Hedging0.17
5.2Bold4.7
2.9Lists3.7
0.21Emoji0.00
1.34Headings0.99
0.03Transitions0.14
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