Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) vs Grok 4.7 (Xhigh)
Which is better for the money: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) by Anthropic or Grok 4.7 (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 4.7 (Xhigh) scores 16.9 points higher (46.4 vs 29.5) but costs 145× as much to run the benchmark ($4967 vs $34.3; flagship vs budget cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Grok 4.7 (Xhigh) when you need intelligence above 29.5, and Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) when 29.5 is enough.
| Metric | Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) | Grok 4.7 (Xhigh) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 29.5 | 46.4 | +57.3% Grok 4.7 (Xhigh) is 57.3% more intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $34.31 | $4,967.35 | +14377.8% Grok 4.7 (Xhigh) is 145× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 10.70s | 46.09s | +330.7% Grok 4.7 (Xhigh) is 330.7% slower |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.10 / $0.50 | $2.00 / $6.00 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image |
Grok 4.7 (Xhigh) vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low): 57.3% more intelligence, 14377.8% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 330.7% slower end-to-end.
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.
- Grok 4.7 (Xhigh) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) scores 56.00 for $4057.
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