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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Grok Imagine Video

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 Video
xai/grok-imagine-video
Provider
Anthropic
xAI
Family
Claude 4
Modality
text
video
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 output second
$0.050 /sec
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 Video
xai/grok-imagine-video
Full spec →

xAI's video generation model. Generates, edits, and extends videos from text and image inputs with native synchronized audio including dialogue, sound effects, and music. Supports multiple creative modes (normal, fun, custom).

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
Use cases
PromosDemosStoryboards

Benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4.6
Grok Imagine Video
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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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 · google/gemini-2.5-pro
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 Video
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-imagine-video",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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