Model Comparison

Comprehensive side-by-side analysis of model capabilities and performance

Anthropic

Claude 3 Sonnet

Anthropic

Claude 3 Sonnet is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.8% across 11 benchmarks. It excels particularly in ARC-C (93.2%), GSM8k (92.3%), HellaSwag (89.0%). The model shows particular specialization in reasoning tasks with an average performance of 91.1%. It supports a 400K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 3 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2024, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.

xAI

Grok-3 Mini

xAI

Grok-3 Mini is a multimodal language model developed by xAI. This model demonstrates exceptional performance with an average score of 87.8% across 4 benchmarks. It excels particularly in AIME 2024 (95.8%), AIME 2025 (90.8%), GPQA (84.0%). The model shows particular specialization in general tasks with an average performance of 90.2%. It supports a 136K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.

Anthropic

Claude 3 Sonnet

Anthropic

2024-02-29

xAI

Grok-3 Mini

xAI

2025-02-17

11 months newer

Pricing Comparison

Cost per million tokens (USD)

Anthropic

Claude 3 Sonnet

Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
xAI

Grok-3 Mini

$17.20 cheaper
Input:$0.30
Output:$0.50

Performance Metrics

Context window and performance specifications

Anthropic

Claude 3 Sonnet

Larger context
Max Context:400.0K
xAI

Grok-3 Mini

Max Context:136.0K

Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Anthropic

Claude 3 Sonnet

Average Score:40.4%
xAI

Grok-3 Mini

+43.6%
Average Score:84.0%

Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Anthropic

Claude 3 Sonnet

general
67.6%
code
73.0%
xAI

Grok-3 Mini

general
+22.6%
90.2%
code
+7.4%
80.4%
Benchmark Scores - Detailed View
Side-by-side comparison of all benchmark scores
Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison

Grok-3 Mini

2024-11-17

More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks

Provider Availability & Performance

Available providers and their performance metrics

Anthropic

Claude 3 Sonnet

3 providers

Google

Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms

Bedrock

Throughput: 120 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

Anthropic

Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
xAI

Grok-3 Mini

1 providers

xAI

Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.7ms
Anthropic

Claude 3 Sonnet

Avg Score:40.4%
Providers:3
xAI

Grok-3 Mini

+43.6%
Avg Score:84.0%
Providers:1