# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Grok 4.6

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Grok 4.6 in 8 of 10 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding, Coding › Agentic, Long context, Vision, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Grok 4.6: $3 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

Grok 4.6: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Grok 4.6 in General LLM at #21 against #61.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Grok 4.6 in Reasoning at #10 against #55.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Science at #10 against #27.
- Which to pick, Coding: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Grok 4.6 in Coding at #12 against #14.
- Which to pick, Coding › Agentic: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Grok 4.6 in Coding › Agentic at #12 against #14.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Coding › Web dev at #22 against #35.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Grok 4.6 in Long context at #10 against #48.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Grok 4.6 in Vision at #13 against #24.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Grok 4.6 in Factuality at #24 against #62.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Grok 4.6 in Abstraction (ARC) at #12 against #20.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; 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).