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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Grok 3 Mini Beta

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Winner summary

Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·Claude Sonnet 4.6
Hype vs Reality
Claude Sonnet 4.6
#104 by perf·#18 by attention
UNDERRATED
Grok 3 Mini Beta
#30 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
30.6x better value than Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6
5.3 pts/$
$9.00/M
Grok 3 Mini Beta
162.0 pts/$
$0.40/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Sonnet 4.6Grok 3 Mini Beta
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads by +104.8
Claude Sonnet 4.6
1462.2
Grok 3 Mini Beta
1357.4
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Grok 3 Mini Beta
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1462.21357.4
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Sonnet 4.6$3.00$15.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$60.00
xAI logoGrok 3 Mini Beta$0.30$0.50131K tokens (~66 books)$3.50