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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Grok 3 Beta

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Opus 5.5 · Grok 3 Beta are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 5.5
#3 by perf·#6 by attention
DESERVED
Grok 3 Beta
#19 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.1x better value than Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5
6.9 pts/$
$12.00/M
Grok 3 Beta
7.7 pts/$
$9.00/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 5.5$4.00$20.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$80.00
xAI logoGrok 3 Beta$3.00$15.00131K tokens (~66 books)$60.00