Claude Mythos 5 vs
Grok 4.20

Read the published evidence, route context, and missing facts before making a local decision. This page does not name a universal winner.

Models in this comparison

Provider identity and evidence state stay balanced across the pair.

A
Model type
Proprietary
Evidence state
Supported evidence
Published context
1,000,000
VS
Model type
Proprietary
Evidence state
Estimated evidence
Published context
2,000,000

Key implications

Insufficient shared-metric coverage. Each finding is tied to a published metric, price, context, or modality fact.

  1. Input API price: Grok 4.20 has the lower verified rate ($2 / 1M tokens vs $10 / 1M tokens).
  2. Output API price: Grok 4.20 has the lower verified rate ($6 / 1M tokens vs $50 / 1M tokens).
  3. Context window: Grok 4.20 has the larger published context window (2,000,000 tokens vs 1,000,000 tokens).

Shared metric view

A radar is shown only when at least four compatible supported score metrics are published.

Comparable metric detail

  • AgenticClaude Mythos 5: 75.79 · Grok 4.20: 50.89
  • CodingClaude Mythos 5: 81.66 · Grok 4.20: 46.12
  • KnowledgeClaude Mythos 5: 97.4 · Grok 4.20: Unavailable
  • MultimodalGroundedClaude Mythos 5: 84.8 · Grok 4.20: 30.5
  • ReasoningClaude Mythos 5: Unavailable · Grok 4.20: 52.7
  • OverallClaude Mythos 5: 83.4 · Grok 4.20: 55.44

Source metrics

Friendly metric names and published units stay visible. Missing measurements remain unavailable rather than becoming a score.

Source metric comparison
MetricUnitClaude Mythos 5Grok 4.20
Agenticscore75.7950.89
Codingscore81.6646.12
Knowledgescore97.4Unavailable
MultimodalGroundedscore84.830.5
ReasoningscoreUnavailable52.7
Overallscore83.455.44

Agentic

Unit
score
Claude Mythos 5
75.79
Grok 4.20
50.89

Coding

Unit
score
Claude Mythos 5
81.66
Grok 4.20
46.12

Knowledge

Unit
score
Claude Mythos 5
97.4
Grok 4.20
Unavailable

MultimodalGrounded

Unit
score
Claude Mythos 5
84.8
Grok 4.20
30.5

Reasoning

Unit
score
Claude Mythos 5
Unavailable
Grok 4.20
52.7

Overall

Unit
score
Claude Mythos 5
83.4
Grok 4.20
55.44

Pricing and context

Verification is shown beside each selected route. Missing facts remain Not verified.

Route pricing and context comparison
FieldUnitClaude Mythos 5Grok 4.20
Input API priceUSD / 1M tokens$10$2
Cached input API priceUSD / 1M tokens$1Not verified
Output API priceUSD / 1M tokens$50$6
Route contexttokens1,000,0002,000,000
Input modalitiespublished listNot verifiedNot verified
Output modalitiespublished listNot verifiedNot verified

Input API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Mythos 5
$10
Grok 4.20
$2

Cached input API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Mythos 5
$1
Grok 4.20
Not verified

Output API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Mythos 5
$50
Grok 4.20
$6

Route context

Unit
tokens
Claude Mythos 5
1,000,000
Grok 4.20
2,000,000

Input modalities

Unit
published list
Claude Mythos 5
Not verified
Grok 4.20
Not verified

Output modalities

Unit
published list
Claude Mythos 5
Not verified
Grok 4.20
Not verified

Evidence provenance

Source records, route identity, timestamps, and methodology are consolidated here without declaring either model a winner.

Publication time
Aug 30, 2026, 2:15 AM UTC
Freshness
Stale — Published weekly benchmark evidence has not refreshed within 8 days.
Methodology
benchlm: benchlm_raw_composite
Model records
  • Claude Mythos 5 — source benchlm · artifact models · model claude-mythos-5
  • Grok 4.20 — source benchlm · artifact models · model grok-4-20-beta
Selected price routes
  • Claude Mythos 5 — route benchlm:claude-mythos-5 · source benchlm · provider anthropic
  • Grok 4.20 — route benchlm:grok-4-20-beta · source benchlm · provider xai

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