Claude Sonnet 4 vs xAI: Grok 4
Compare Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic against xAI: Grok 4 by xAI, in 34 community votes, claude sonnet 4 wins 67% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 256K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Web Design: xAI: Grok 4 wins 64% of votes
Image Generation: Claude Sonnet 4 wins 91% of votes
Analysis: Claude Sonnet 4 wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4Winner
xAI: Grok 4Runner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 4. In 34 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4 wins 67% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick Claude Sonnet 4 for Analysis, Image Generation. Pick xAI: Grok 4 for Web Design.
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Claude Sonnet 4
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
xAI: Grok 4
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
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Similarity
37%
Claude Sonnet 4 uses 12.5x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 4
xAI: Grok 4
62%Vocabulary53%
111wSentence Length18w
0.40Hedging0.67
5.0Bold2.7
9.3Lists2.7
0.88Emoji0.07
2.16Headings0.86
0.33Transitions0.04
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