SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | x-ai | ~anthropic |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $1.00/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $2.00/M | $10.00/M |
| Context Window | 256,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 230,400 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Grok Build 0.1 costs $1.50 and Claude Sonnet Latest costs $4.50, so Grok Build 0.1 is about 3.0 times cheaper for the same work.
Claude Sonnet Latest reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 384 pages for Grok Build 0.1.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Grok Build 0.1 scores higher on 4 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Claude Sonnet Latest on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Grok Build 0.1 was released in May 2026 and Claude Sonnet Latest in April 2026.
Pick Grok Build 0.1 if you need lower cost; pick Claude Sonnet Latest if you need long documents 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 | SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 130 | 132 |
| Code Review | 126 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 116 | 117 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 130 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 121 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 129 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 117 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 117 | 120 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 127 | 132 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 123 | 121 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 121 | 118 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 129 | 136 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 115 | 113 |
| Blog Post Writing | 118 | 120 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →