$ diff claude-opus-5-5 grok-4-6
Claude Opus 5.5 vs Grok 4.6
Values come from Claude Opus 5.5 and Grok 4.6, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
AnthropicClaude Opus 5.5
- context
- 1M
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $4
- $/M out
- $20
- context
- 500K
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $2
- $/M out
- $6
What actually differs
- Context window
- Claude Opus 5.5 takes 1M against 500K — 2× more room in a single request.
- Input price
- Grok 4.6 at $2/M against $4/M — 2.0× cheaper to feed. Standard rates: one of these labs also quotes a lower cached-input tier, which applies only when a prefix is reused — see the full spec below.
- Output price
- Grok 4.6 at $6/M against $20/M — 3.3× cheaper to generate. Output dominates the bill on most agentic workloads, where the model writes far more than it reads.
- Recency
- Claude Opus 5.5 shipped 46 days after Grok 4.6 (2026-09-22 vs 2026-08-07).
Full spec
| Attribute | Claude Opus 5.5 | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Anthropic | xAI |
| Released | 2026-09-22 | 2026-08-07 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 500,000 tokens |
| Pricing | $4/M input · $20/M output · cache reads $0.20/M · cache writes $5/M | $2/M input · $6/M output; a request reaching 200K tokens re-prices in full at $4.00/M input · $1.00/M cached input · $12.00/M output |
| License | proprietary (API-only; no weight release) | proprietary |
| Availability | Claude apps, Claude Code, Claude API as `claude-opus-5-5`, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry | API |