Claude Opus 4.6 vs Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta
Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta by xAI, in 55 community votes, claude opus 4.6 wins 58% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 2.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Web Design: Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta are tied
Image Generation: Claude Opus 4.6 wins 83% of votes
Reasoning: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta wins 70% of votes
Conversation: Claude Opus 4.6 wins 75% of votes
Analysis: Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta are tied
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6Winner
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent BetaRunner-up
Pick Claude Opus 4.6. In 55 blind votes, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 58% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 for Image Generation, Conversation. Pick Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta for Reasoning. Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta is 4.2x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta
Input
$2.00
2.5× cheaper
Output
$6.00
4.2× cheaper
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta is cheaper on both — 2.5× input, 4.2× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
34%
Claude Opus 4.6 uses 20.7x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.6
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta
53%Vocabulary59%
35wSentence Length16w
0.68Hedging0.41
5.2Bold2.7
2.9Lists2.4
0.21Emoji0.00
1.34Headings0.26
0.03Transitions0.02
Based on 23 + 23 text responses
Research
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