Grok 4 is 37.5% cheaper for input tokens ($2.50 vs. $4.00 per 1M tokens) and $12.50 vs. $20.00 for output tokens (1.6x cost advantage). In terms of operational performance, Grok 4 delivers lower response latency at 480ms TTFT (200ms faster than Claude Opus 5.5) with 95 vs. 95 tok/s throughput. Claude Opus 5.5 leads coding evaluations at 89.9% SWE-bench Verified vs. 73.2% for Grok 4 and 93.2% vs. 86.2% on GPQA Diamond.
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Verified Performance & Unit Economics Delta (12 Dimensions)
Daily synchronized metrics across token pricing, prompt cache economics, latency, throughput, and 5 capability benchmarks.
Metric / Dimension
Claude Opus 5.5
Grok 4
Net Delta / Advantage
Input Cost / 1M Tokens
$4.00
$2.50
Grok 4 is 1.6x cheaper
Output Cost / 1M Tokens
$20.00
$12.50
Grok 4 (37.5% lower)
Prompt Cache Read / 1M
$0.200
$0.500
Claude Opus 5.5 is 2.5x cheaper
Prompt Cache Write / 1M
$5.00
$2.50
Grok 4 is 2.0x cheaper
Context Window (Max Output)
1,024k (128k out)
262k (66k out)
Claude Opus 5.5 (3.9x larger context)
Avg TTFT Response Latency
680ms
480ms
Grok 4 (200ms faster)
Generation Speed (Throughput)
95 tok/s
95 tok/s
Equal Throughput
SWE-bench Verified (Coding)
89.9%
73.2%
Claude Opus 5.5 (+16.7% lead)
GPQA Diamond (PhD STEM)
93.2%
86.2%
Claude Opus 5.5 (+7.0% lead)
MMLU-Pro (Multi-Discipline)
92.1%
89.9%
Claude Opus 5.5 (+2.2% lead)
MATH-500 (Quantitative Logic)
98%
97.6%
Claude Opus 5.5 (+0.4% lead)
Inference Value Score (IVR)
57.8 / 100
57.6 / 100
Claude Opus 5.5 (+0.2 pts)
Interactive Monthly Token Economics & ROI Forecaster
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Choose Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) for top-ranked frontier intelligence leader for autonomous multi-step agentic coding, repository-scale migrations, and complex scientific reasoning at a 40% lower workload cost than Opus 5 — offering a 1,024k context window, 680ms TTFT, and $4.00/1M input pricing ($0.200/1M cached reads).
Grok 4 is cheaper at $2.50/1M input tokens ($12.50/1M output) compared to $4.00/1M input ($20.00/1M output) for Claude Opus 5.5.
Which model has lower TTFT latency and higher tok/s throughput: Claude Opus 5.5 or Grok 4?
Grok 4 delivers faster first-token latency at 480ms TTFT (95 tok/s throughput) compared to 680ms TTFT (95 tok/s) for Claude Opus 5.5.
How do Claude Opus 5.5 and Grok 4 compare on SWE-bench coding and GPQA Diamond reasoning?
On SWE-bench Verified software engineering, Claude Opus 5.5 scores 89.9% versus 73.2% for Grok 4. On GPQA Diamond graduate-level STEM reasoning, Claude Opus 5.5 scores 93.2% versus 86.2% for Grok 4 (and 98% vs 97.6% on MATH-500).
When should you choose Claude Opus 5.5?
Choose Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) for top-ranked frontier intelligence leader for autonomous multi-step agentic coding, repository-scale migrations, and complex scientific reasoning at a 40% lower workload cost than Opus 5 — offering a 1,024k context window, 680ms TTFT, and $4.00/1M input pricing ($0.200/1M cached reads).
When should you choose Grok 4?
Choose Grok 4 (xAI) for real-time financial/market intelligence, PhD-level STEM problem solving, and autonomous code generation — offering a 262k context window, 480ms TTFT, and $2.50/1M input pricing ($0.500/1M cached reads).
