Grok 3 Beta vs Claude 3 Haiku

Compare Grok 3 Beta by xAI against Claude 3 Haiku by Anthropic, in 1 community votes, claude 3 haiku wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 131K vs 200K, tested across 30 shared challenges. Updated March 2026.

Which is better, Grok 3 Beta or Claude 3 Haiku?

Claude 3 Haiku is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 1 blind community votes on Rival. Grok 3 Beta costs $2/M input tokens vs $0.25/M for Claude 3 Haiku. Context windows: 131K vs 200K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.

Key Differences Between Grok 3 Beta and Claude 3 Haiku

Grok 3 Beta is made by xai while Claude 3 Haiku is from anthropic. Grok 3 Beta has a 131K token context window compared to Claude 3 Haiku's 200K. On pricing, Grok 3 Beta costs $2/M input tokens vs $0.25/M for Claude 3 Haiku. In community voting, In 1 community votes, Claude 3 Haiku wins 100% of head-to-head duels.

In 1 community votes, Claude 3 Haiku wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 1+ human preference judgments for this pair.

Our Verdict
Claude 3 Haiku
Claude 3 HaikuWinner
Grok 3 Beta
Grok 3 BetaRunner-up

Pick Claude 3 Haiku. In 1 blind votes, Claude 3 Haiku wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.

Claude 3 Haiku is 3.2x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.

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