Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) vs xAI: Grok Latest
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) | xAI: Grok Latest | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | anthropic | ~x-ai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 10.9 |
| Input Price | $2.50/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $12.50/M | $6.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 500,000 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 450,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 12.4 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Grok Latest costs $3.50 and Claude Opus 5 (batch) costs $5.62, so Grok Latest is about 1.6 times cheaper for the same work.
Claude Opus 5 (batch) reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 750 pages for Grok Latest.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Grok Latest on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Pick Claude Opus 5 (batch) if you need long documents; pick Grok Latest if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) | xAI: Grok Latest |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 132 | 134 |
| Code Review | 132 | 134 |
| Code Completion | 117 | 118 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 138 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 138 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 125 |
| Code Documentation | 129 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 117 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 121 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 123 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 125 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 132 | 133 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 129 |
| JSON Extraction | 121 | 122 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 117 | 119 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 136 | 139 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 113 | 115 |
| Blog Post Writing | 120 | 122 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →