Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) vs Grok 4.6 (Xhigh)
Which is better for the money: Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) by Anthropic or Grok 4.6 (Xhigh) by SpaceXAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.
Trade-off
Verdict
Depends on your budget
Grok 4.6 (Xhigh) scores 27.3 points higher (44.2 vs 16.9) but costs 3.8× as much to run the benchmark ($2242 vs $594; flagship vs premium cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Grok 4.6 (Xhigh) when you need intelligence above 16.9, and Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) when 16.9 is enough.
| Metric | Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) | Grok 4.6 (Xhigh) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 16.9 | 44.2 | +161.5% Grok 4.6 (Xhigh) is 2.6× more intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $594.08 | $2,241.91 | +277.4% Grok 4.6 (Xhigh) is 3.8× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 23.70s | 39.83s | +68.1% Grok 4.6 (Xhigh) is 68.1% slower |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $1.00 / $5.00 | $2.00 / $6.00 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image |
Grok 4.6 (Xhigh) vs Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning): 161.5% more intelligence, 277.4% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 68.1% slower end-to-end.
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 50.20 for $521.
- Grok 4.6 (Xhigh) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.
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