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Grok 4.6 vs Claude Opus 5

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Language Models · verified 13 Aug 2026

Grok 4.6xAIcurrent
Claude Opus 5Anthropiccurrent
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SpecificationGrok 4.6Claude Opus 5
SummaryNewest xAI flagship.Complex agentic coding and enterprise work at half the cost of Fable 5.
Context500K1M
Input ($/Mtok)$2$5
Output ($/Mtok)$6$25
LicenceProprietaryProprietary
Max output128K
Released12 Aug 202624 Jul 2026
Model IDgrok-4.6claude-opus-5
CategoryLanguage ModelsLanguage Models
OfficialxAIAnthropic

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Grok 4.6

  • Tiered pricing: doubles above 200K tokens
  • Smaller context than Grok 4.3 despite being newer

Best for cost-sensitive scale.

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Claude Opus 5

  • Thinking on by default — a step change over Opus 4.8
  • 512-token prompt-cache minimum, down from 1024
  • Separate rate-limit bucket from the Opus 4.x pool

Best for agentic coding.

Full spec sheet →