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Discover how Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 and xAI's Grok 4.6 stack up against each other in this comprehensive comparison of two leading AI language models. Released in July 2026 and August 2026 respectively, these models represent significant advancements in artificial intelligence, with Claude Opus 5 offering a 1,000,000-token context window and Grok 4.6 offering a 500,000-token context window.

Explore their capabilities, pricing, and performance metrics to find the right AI solution for your specific needs.

Models Overview

	Claude Opus 5	Grok 4.6
Provider The company that provides the model.	Anthropic	xAI
Context Length Maximum number of tokens the model can process	1M	500K
Maximum Output Maximum number of tokens the model can generate in one response	128K	Unknown
Release Date When the model was first released.	24-07-2026	08-2026
Knowledge Cutoff When the model's training data ends.	2026-05	Unknown
Open Source Whether the model weights are openly available.	FALSE	FALSE

Pricing Comparison

Compare the pricing of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 and xAI's Grok 4.6 to determine the most cost-effective solution for your AI needs. Prices are the standard API tier per million tokens, as published by each provider as of September 2026.

	Claude Opus 5	Grok 4.6
Input Cost Cost per million input tokens	$5 / 1M tokens	$2 / 1M tokens
Output Cost Cost per million tokens generated	$25 / 1M tokens	$6 / 1M tokens

Comparing Benchmarks and Performance

Compare the performances of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 and xAI's Grok 4.6 on industry benchmarks. Scores are the ones the providers and public leaderboards report; a benchmark neither reports is left out.

	Claude Opus 5	Grok 4.6
LMArena Elo Crowd-sourced blind preference rating on the LMArena text leaderboard.	1,493	Benchmark not available
Humanity's Last Exam Expert-written questions at the frontier of human knowledge.	56.3%	Benchmark not available

Sources — Claude Opus 5: platform.claude.com, arena.ai, anthropic.com; Grok 4.6: docs.x.ai, x.ai.