Claude vs Grok

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Claude Anthropic's assistant and models for writing, analysis and agentic cod... Visit Grok SpaceXSI's chatbot (formerly xAI), with live X data and Grok 4.7 Visit
RECATOOLS Score 9 / 10 7 / 10
Capability 9.5 8
Value for money 8.5 6
Ease of use 9 7
ASEAN readiness 8 6
API quality 9.5 6
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier Free plan: chat on web, desktop and mobile, web search, file creation and code execution, memory, connectors, Artifacts, up to 5 projects, usage limits apply Free plan with limited Grok chat and agent requests, a starter Cursor allowance and standard X
Paid from $20/month (Pro, or $17/month on annual billing) $8/month (The X Subscription Plus; $80/year)
Has API ✓ ✓
Open source ✗ ✗
Free to use ✓ ✓
Users Tens of millions of users globally 100M+ monthly active users (~117M as of March 2026)
Founded 2023 2023
Maker Anthropic SpaceX
Verdict

Claude covers the full range from a free chat app to Anthropic's API, and the autumn 2026 releases reset the lineup: Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's recommended default, Fable 5.1 handles the longest agentic jobs, and Haiku 5.5...

Grok is a capable frontier assistant whose real differentiator is live grounding in X alongside web search. Grok 4.7 is priced aggressively on the API at $2 and $6 per million tokens, and The X Subscription now bundles G...

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