# Claude Opus 4.1 vs Grok 4.6

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.1 leads Grok 4.6 in 0 of 6 shared categories.

Claude Opus 4.1: $29.999999999999996 per 1M blended tokens.

Grok 4.6: $3 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.1: closed weights.

Grok 4.6: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads Claude Opus 4.1 in General LLM at #61 against #73.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads Claude Opus 4.1 in Reasoning at #55 against #60.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads Claude Opus 4.1 in Science at #10 against #83.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads Claude Opus 4.1 in Coding › Web dev at #22 against #84.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads Claude Opus 4.1 in Long context at #48 against #52.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads Claude Opus 4.1 in Factuality at #62 against #93.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.1 is a former state-of-the-art holder in General LLM (since Aug 18, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 is ranked #10 in Science (since Oct 15, 2026; sources GPQA Diamond; methodology v1.0).