Grok vs Claude: which is better? Comparison 2026
By our public methodology Grok scores 73 out of 100 and Claude scores 69. Below: the factors and facts where they differ, each fact with its source.
Score breakdown
| Grok | Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy | 57 | 57 |
| Capabilities | 71 | 86 |
| Price | 84 | 60 |
| User reputation | 94 | 83 |
| Transparency | 80 | 58 |
Pros and cons
Grok
- You can keep your chats out of model training
- Highly rated by App Store users
- Free plan available
- Publishes model cards for its models
Claude
- You can keep your chats out of model training
- Highly rated by App Store users
- Very large context window
- Free plan available
- Chats are used for training unless you opt out
- No image generation
Facts side by side
| Fact | Grok | Claude |
|---|---|---|
| You can stop chats from training the model | Yes docs.x.ai | Yes anthropic.com |
| Chats are not used for training by default | Not verified | No anthropic.com |
| Temporary chat mode | Yes docs.x.ai | Yes support.claude.com |
| Context window, tokens | Not verified | 1,000,000 support.claude.com |
| Web search | Yes x.ai | Yes claude.com |
| File upload | Yes docs.x.ai | Yes support.claude.com |
| Image generation | Yes docs.x.ai | No support.claude.com |
| Voice conversation | Yes docs.x.ai | Yes support.claude.com |
| Developer API | Yes docs.x.ai | Yes platform.claude.com |
| Free plan | Yes docs.x.ai | Yes claude.com |
| Cheapest paid plan, per month | $8.00 docs.x.ai | $20.00 claude.com |
| App Store rating | 4.9★ itunes.apple.com | 4.7★ itunes.apple.com |
| App Store ratings | 1,552,870 itunes.apple.com | 288,735 itunes.apple.com |
| Publishes model cards | Yes media.x.ai | Yes anthropic.com |
| Open-weight models | Yes x.ai | Not verified |
| Company founded | 2023 x.ai | 2021 anthropic.com |
| Company headquarters | Not verified | United States anthropic.com |
| Company | SpaceX Super Intelligence LLC x.ai | Anthropic PBC anthropic.com |