# Claude Opus 5.5 vs Grok 4.1

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Grok 4.1 in 4 of 4 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Long context, and Factuality.

Claude Opus 5.5: $8.000000000000002 per 1M blended tokens.

Grok 4.1: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Claude Opus 5.5: closed weights.

Grok 4.1: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Grok 4.1 in General LLM at #2 against #53.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Grok 4.1 in Reasoning at #1 against #68.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Grok 4.1 in Long context at #1 against #82.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Grok 4.1 in Factuality at #1 against #103.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 is tied for state of the art in Reasoning (since Oct 2, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.1 is ranked #53 in General LLM (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).