Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Grok 4 in finance

Every finance benchmark where both have a score (Anthropic and xAI). Data refreshed 2 Nov 2026.

Shared benchmarks
2
Claude Sonnet 4.5 only
1
Grok 4 only
3

Shared benchmarks, side by side

Each benchmark is drawn on its own scale. Bars are not comparable across rows.

  • Claude Sonnet 4.5
  • Grok 4

  • Market-Bench mean MAE, lower is better

    Claude Sonnet 4.5:5126.8
    Grok 4:443.2 (better)

  • FinDeepResearch overall accuracy score (0-100), higher is better

    Claude Sonnet 4.5:25.8
    Grok 4:37.3 (better)
Benchmark
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Grok 4

8 benchmarks, 2 scored for both. Bold marks the better score where both have one.

Market-Benchmean MAE, lower is better
5126.8
marketbench.ai leaderboard (Official board, date not stated)
443.2
marketbench.ai leaderboard (Official board, date not stated)
FinDeepResearchoverall accuracy score (0-100), higher is better
25.8
OpenFinArena leaderboard (Official board, 15 Oct 2025)
37.3
OpenFinArena leaderboard (Official board, 15 Oct 2025)
Reasoning Models Ace the CFA Exams (CFA mock-exam evaluation)Level I accuracy %, higher is better
Not scored
94.8
Paper Table 5 (Reported by the authors, 9 Dec 2025)
Reasoning Models Ace the CFA Exams (CFA mock-exam evaluation)Level III constructed-response score %, higher is better
Not scored
71.2
Paper Table 5 (Reported by the authors, 9 Dec 2025)
Finch: Finance & Accounting Cowork Benchmarkworkflow pass rate % (human eval), higher is better
25
Paper Table 5 (Reported by the authors, Apr 2026)
Not scored
FinSearchCompGlobal subset average accuracy %, higher is better
Not scored
68.9
Paper Table 5 (Reported by the authors, 16 Sept 2025)
FinSearchCompGreater China subset average accuracy %, higher is better
Not scored
51.9
Paper Table 5 (Reported by the authors, 16 Sept 2025)
LiveTradeBenchcumulative return %, higher is better
Not scored
4.3
Paper Table 2 (Reported by the authors, 5 Nov 2025)

Scores from different benchmarks use different scales and are not added up. Settings can differ between sources; see each leaderboard for details.