Is Claude or Grok cheaper?

On the API, Claude has the lower entry price — Claude Haiku 5.5 works out to about $0.22 per million tokens on a typical 70% input / 30% output mix. Consumer subscriptions are a separate question and usually land at the same headline price.

Which is better for coding, Claude or Grok?

Claude takes it on the combined coding and reasoning score in this comparison, led by Claude Fable 5.1. The gap at the top of each family is narrower than it used to be, so for most everyday coding work either is fine — the difference shows up on large multi-file changes.

Can I use Claude and Grok together?

Yes, and many teams do. A common setup routes cheap high-volume calls to whichever family is cheaper at the fast tier and reserves the expensive flagship for the small share of requests that actually need it. That routing decision is worth more than picking a single winner.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude, at up to 1M tokens. Context size only matters if you actually fill it — most production prompts sit well under 100K, and long-context pricing tiers can make very large prompts disproportionately expensive.

Brand comparison

Claude vs Grok

Two product families, side by side — subscriptions, API pricing, and which one to reach for.

The short answer

Claude leads on raw capability — its strongest model, Claude Fable 5.1, posts the higher combined coding and reasoning score in this comparison. Claude is the cheaper way in: Claude Haiku 5.5 blends to $0.22 per million tokens, which is what matters once you are running volume rather than evaluating. Claude offers the wider context window at 1M tokens. Most teams end up using both — one for the hard problems, one for everything else.

Anthropic

Claude

Anthropic's assistant, favoured for long-document work, writing quality, and agentic coding. The API family runs from an always-thinking frontier model down to a fast extraction tier, with a 1M context window across the current generation.

API models: 10
Max context: 1M

xAI

Grok

xAI's assistant, bundled with X Premium. The API's headline feature is output-token pricing well below its capability peers, which makes it unusually cheap for generation-heavy workloads.

API models: 2
Max context: 500K

Subscriptions

What Claude and Grok charge a person per month.

Claude sells a consumer subscription; Grok is used mainly through its API or bundled elsewhere, so there is no like-for-like monthly price to compare. If you want a chat product you pay for monthly, that decision is already made for you.

Claude

Claude FreeFree
Claude Pro$20.00/mo
Claude Max$100.00/mo

Grok

No consumer subscription tracked.

Plan prices last verified October 9, 2026.

API pricing, tier by tier

Claude and Grok line-ups matched by capability tier.

Tier	Claude	Grok
Flagship	Claude Fable 5.1$10.00 / $50.00 per 1M in / out	—
Mid-range	Claude Sonnet 5.5$2.00 / $10.00 per 1M in / out	Grok 4.7$2.00 / $6.00 per 1M in / out
Budget	Claude Haiku 5.5$0.10 / $0.50 per 1M in / out	—

At 10M + 2M tokens a month — a realistic mid-size production workload — the cheapest option from Claude (Claude Haiku 5.5) runs about $2.00, against roughly $32.00 for Grok's Grok 4.7. Run your own numbers on the calculator before committing: the mix of input to output tokens moves this more than the headline price does.

Which one to pick

For the hardest reasoning and long agentic runs: Claude, specifically Claude Fable 5.1.
For high-volume production where cost dominates: Claude, specifically Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.22 blended per million tokens.
For whole-repository or long-document work: Claude, with up to 1M tokens of context.

Model-level comparisons

The brand answer is a summary. These pages compare the specific Claude and Grok models against each other with full benchmark and cost breakdowns.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Grok 4.7Mid-range

The short answer

Claude

Grok

Subscriptions

Claude

Grok

API pricing, tier by tier

Which one to pick

Model-level comparisons

Other comparisons