Claude Opus 5 vs Grok Build 0.1

Anthropic's newest Opus model, and the successor to Opus 4.8. Opus 5 reaches near-frontier intelligence at the same price as the model it replaces, and lets you set how hard it works per task. It reasons before answering by default, checks its own output, and reads text and images across a very large context. Built for long-horizon coding and agentic work that runs with little supervision.

xAI's coding model, purpose-built for autonomous software engineering rather than chat. Grok Build 0.1 acts as an engineering agent: it reasons through a problem, writes code, runs your terminal, checks for errors, and fixes its own mistakes in a loop. It reads text and images, always reasons before answering, and natively supports Model Context Protocol. Built for long-horizon coding that runs with little supervision, at a low cost, tuned for agent loops.