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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Grok 3 Mini Beta
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins on 1/1 benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.
Category leads
arena·Claude Sonnet 4.6
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Sonnet 4.6
#149 by perf·#10 by attention
Grok 3 Mini Beta
#34 by perf·no signal
Best value
Grok 3 Mini Beta
31.6x better value than Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6
5.1 pts/$
$9.00/M
Grok 3 Mini Beta
162.0 pts/$
$0.40/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
1 benchmark · 2 models
Claude Sonnet 4.6Grok 3 Mini Beta
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads by +114.8
Claude Sonnet 4.6
1472.2
Grok 3 Mini Beta
1357.4
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Grok 3 Mini Beta |
|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1472.2 | 1357.4 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3.00 | $15.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $60.00 | |
| $0.30 | $0.50 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $3.50 |
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