Grok 3 Mini vs Claude Opus 5.5
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare Grok 3 Mini by xAI against Claude Opus 5.5 by Anthropic across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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Grok 3 Mini
نموذج استدلال عميقنموذج Grok 3 Mini المقدم من xAI يوفر نافذة سياق تصل إلى 131K رمز، بتكلفة $0.3 لكل مليون رمز إدخال و$1.2 لكل مليون رمز إخراج، ومصمم للبرمجة والاستدلال وتطبيقات الأعمال.
$0.30 / 1M
$1.20 / 1M
131.1K tokens
56.4%
Claude Opus 5.5
نموذج استدلال عميقنموذج Claude Opus 5.5 المقدم من Anthropic يوفر نافذة سياق تصل إلى 1M رمز، بتكلفة $4.0 لكل مليون رمز إدخال و$20.0 لكل مليون رمز إخراج، ومصمم للبرمجة والاستدلال وتطبيقات الأعمال.
$4.00 / 1M
$20.00 / 1M
1M tokens
84.6%
أهم الفروقات في لمحة
- Grok 3 Mini is 15.0x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
- Claude Opus 5.5 has a larger context window (1M vs 131K tokens).
- Grok 3 Mini is faster at 90 tok/s vs 78 tok/s.
- Claude Opus 5.5 leads on SWE-bench coding (84.6% vs 56.4%).
| Feature | Grok 3 Mini | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 47 | 94 |
Provider | xAI | Anthropic |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $0.30 / 1M | $4.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $1.20 / 1M | $20.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $0.23 / 1M | $3.08 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 131.1K tokens~197 A4 pages of text | 1M tokens~1,500 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 16K | 128K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 90 tok/s | 78 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 56.4% | 84.6% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 68.4% | 82.3% |
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens | $0.07 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M |
من يتفوق في كل مجال؟
At-a-glance decision frameworkنتائج الاختبارات المعيارية الموثقة
Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.
Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.
Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.
Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.
Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.
Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.
Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.
Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.
Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.
American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.
Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.
Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.
زمن الاستجابة والسرعة
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
محاكي تكلفة الرموز التفاعلي
Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.
Grok 3 Mini · Strengths & Key Advantages
- بنية Reasoning Optimized Hybrid Transformer متطورة من xAI مع سعة سياق تبلغ 131K رمز
- كفاءة عالية في التكلفة ($0.3/1M إدخال و$1.2/1M إخراج) وسرعة استجابة ممتازة
- أداء قوي في اختبارات البرمجة، الاستدلال المنطقي، ودعم اللغات المتعددة
Considerations & Trade-offs
- يتطلب إدارة دقيقة لاستهلاك الرموز عند استخدام نافذة السياق الكاملة
- قد يحتاج إلى ضبط دقيق للتعليمات (Prompt Engineering) في المهام التخصصية المعقدة
Claude Opus 5.5 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- بنية Extended Autonomous Hybrid Reasoning Transformer متطورة من Anthropic مع سعة سياق تبلغ 1M رمز
- كفاءة عالية في التكلفة ($4.0/1M إدخال و$20.0/1M إخراج) وسرعة استجابة ممتازة
- أداء قوي في اختبارات البرمجة، الاستدلال المنطقي، ودعم اللغات المتعددة
Considerations & Trade-offs
- يتطلب إدارة دقيقة لاستهلاك الرموز عند استخدام نافذة السياق الكاملة
- قد يحتاج إلى ضبط دقيق للتعليمات (Prompt Engineering) في المهام التخصصية المعقدة
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | Grok 3 Mini | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $0.32 | $3.85 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 26K | 68K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 18K | 42K |
المواصفات التقنية
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Feature | Grok 3 Mini | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | grok-3-mini-latest | claude-opus-5-5-20260901 |
| API Protocol | xAI REST API (OpenAI-Compatible) | Anthropic Messages API + AWS Bedrock + Vertex AI |
| Release Date | 2025-02 | 2026-09 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | November 2024 | June 2026 |
| Architecture | Reasoning Optimized Hybrid Transformer | Extended Autonomous Hybrid Reasoning Transformer |
| Parameters | Confidential | Confidential |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | 5,000 – 15,000 RPM (Production Tier) · 800,000 – 2,000,000 TPM | 4,000 – 10,000 RPM (Tier 4 + Priority Tier) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM |
| Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K) | Flat rate ($0.3/1M in) across full 131K window | Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Cached input at $0.075/1M tokens | $0.4/1M cached read (90% off); 5-min default & 1-hour extended TTL |
| Computer Use / GUI Agent | API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop) | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) |
| MCP & Parallel Tool Calling | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema |
| Web Search Grounding & Sandbox | Real-time Web & X (Twitter) Search Grounding + Code Execution | Native Web Search Citations + Code Execution Tool + MCP Connectors |
| Official Fine-Tuning Support | API Prompt Engineering & RAG Distillation | Custom Model Tuning via Amazon Bedrock & Prompt Distillation |
| Multimodal Token Billing | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API) | Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API) |
| Safety & Frontier Classification | xAI Production Safety & Alignment Verified | Anthropic RSP ASL-2 / ASL-3 Constitutional Safety Evaluated |
| Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2) | SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier | SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier |
| Input Modalities | text | text, vision |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
Grok 3 Mini vs Claude Opus 5.5: إجابات سريعة (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, Grok 3 Mini or Claude Opus 5.5?
Claude Opus 5.5 is more intelligent. It scores 94 compared with 47 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
Grok 3 Mini is faster, generating 90 tokens per second compared with 78 tokens per second.
Which model is cheaper to run?
Grok 3 Mini is cheaper at $0.23 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $3.08 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).
Which model has lower latency?
Grok 3 Mini has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.51s compared with 1.40s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Claude Opus 5.5 has a larger context window, supporting 1M tokens compared with 131.1K tokens.
الحكم النهائي
Choose Grok 3 Mini for أتمتة الأعمال، تطوير البرمجيات، الوكلاء الأذكياء (ai agents)، وتطبيقات xai الإنتاجية, or choose Claude Opus 5.5 for أتمتة الأعمال، تطوير البرمجيات، الوكلاء الأذكياء (ai agents)، وتطبيقات anthropic الإنتاجية.
الأسئلة الشائعة (FAQ)
Which is cheaper: Grok 3 Mini or Claude Opus 5.5?+
Grok 3 Mini costs $0.3/1M input and $1.2/1M output tokens, while Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: Grok 3 Mini or Claude Opus 5.5?+
Grok 3 Mini supports 131K tokens whereas Claude Opus 5.5 supports 1M tokens.
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