Claude Opus 4.7 vs Grok 4.5

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

Metric
Claude Opus 4.7Anthropicanthropic/claude-opus-4.7
Grok 4.5xAIx-ai/grok-4.5
Creator
Anthropic
xAI
Released
Apr 16, 2026
Jul 8, 2026
Context window
1M (best)
500K
Max output
128K
500K (best)
Input / 1MLowest provider price
$5.00
$2.00 (best)
Output / 1MLowest provider price
$25.00
$6.00 (best)
Providers
3 (best)
1
IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index
40.7 (best)
38.8
CodingArtificial Analysis index
73.6 (best)
72.4
LatencyMedian time to first token
4.5s (best)
81s
ThroughputMedian tokens per second
<1 t/s
<1 t/s (best)
Accepts
Text, Image
Text, Image
Produces
Text
Text
Tool calling
Yes
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
No

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Grok 4.5: summary

Claude Opus 4.7 and Grok 4.5 are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

Claude Opus 4.7, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window, costs from $5.00/1M input and $25.00/1M output tokens across 3 providers and scores 40.7 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Grok 4.5, from xAI, has a 500,000-token context window, costs $2.00/1M input and $6.00/1M output tokens and scores 38.8 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Grok 4.5 is the cheapest on input, 2.5× cheaper than the next model, Claude Opus 4.7 has the largest context window, Claude Opus 4.7 scores highest for intelligence, Claude Opus 4.7 leads on coding and Grok 4.5 has the highest throughput.

Switch with one line

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.7", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="x-ai/grok-4.5", messages=[...])
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