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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Grok Imagine Image Quality

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Grok Imagine Image Quality
xai/grok-imagine-image-quality
Provider
Anthropic
xAI
Family
Claude 4
Modality
text
image
Context window
200,000 tok
Max output
128,000 tok
Released
2026-05-22
2026-05-22
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input price
$3.00 /1M
Output price
$15.00 /1M
Cache read
$0.300 /1M
Cache write
$3.75 /1M
Per image
$0.050 /img
Tools
yes
Streaming
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
yes
Reasoning
yes
Prompt caching
yes
Batch API
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's latest balanced model offering strong coding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities with improved instruction following.

Strengths
  • Best cost/quality ratio for agentic workloads
  • Low latency
  • Strong tool calling
Use cases
Production agentsRAGCustomer-facing chatData extraction
Grok Imagine Image Quality
xai/grok-imagine-image-quality
Full spec →

xAI's higher-fidelity text-to-image model optimized for sharper details, more accurate compositions, and stronger text rendering. Supports image editing via reference images and masks. Trades speed for quality compared to grok-imagine-image. Default output at 2k resolution.

Strengths
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Creative control
Use cases
Marketing assetsProduct mockupsConcept art

Benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4.6
Grok Imagine Image Quality
HumanEval
93.4
MMLU
87.2
SWE-Bench
62.1

Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Claude Sonnet 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Grok Imagine Image Quality
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-imagine-image-quality",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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