Claude Opus 4.7 vs Grok 4.3

Compare Claude Opus 4.7 and Grok 4.3 on the metrics that decide an agent workload.

MetricClaude Opus 4.7Grok 4.3
ProviderAnthropicxAI
Input / 1M$5.00$1.25
Output / 1M$25.00$2.50
Cache read / 1M$0.50 (−90%)$0.20 (−84%)
Reuse-adj @55%$8.14$1.13
Context1M1M
Cache capture92%76%
Warm TTFT320ms (−64%)280ms (−56%)
Quality index9592

Teal marks the better value in each row. Reuse-adjusted assumes 55% prefix reuse and a 25% output share.

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 when

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 when it scores higher on the composite quality index, it captures more of the available reuse.

Pick Grok 4.3 when

Pick Grok 4.3 when it is cheaper once prefix reuse is priced in, it answers faster on warm cache hits.

Verdict

Claude Opus 4.7 leads on quality while Grok 4.3 leads on reuse-adjusted cost. Send latency- and budget-sensitive volume to Grok 4.3 and reserve Claude Opus 4.7 for the hard requests. Zumik's aliases route between them automatically under policy.

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Grok 4.3, answered.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Grok 4.3 cheaper?

At 55% prefix reuse, Claude Opus 4.7 blends to about $8.14 per 1M tokens and Grok 4.3 to about $1.13. Grok 4.3 is cheaper on that basis.

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Opus 4.7 has the larger window: 1M vs 1M tokens.

Which captures more reuse?

Claude Opus 4.7 shows higher measured cache capture (92% vs 76%) in the Zumik corpus.

Let an alias pick for you.

Route to whichever model wins under current policy automatically. Zumik resolves the alias to the best fit per request, so you never hard-code a loser.