Claude vs Grok

What 19 creators said when they picked between the two, from podcasts and YouTube. Updated Oct 18, 2026.

Short answer

Creators are split: 7 prefer Claude, 6 prefer Grok. 6 use both. Grok wins on agents.

7 prefer Claude 6 use both 6 prefer Grok

Which is better for…

Agents and automation Grok 1 pick Claude · 3 pick Grok · 1 use both
Coding Close 2 pick Claude · 2 pick Grok · 0 use both

Only counts creators who compared the two for that job.

What creators use each for

Job Claude Grok
Agents and automation 78 22
Coding 74 9
Business ops 64 10
Research 48 26
Writing 49 3
Personal assistant 24 14
Design and UI 27 3
Brainstorming 27 1

Creators who said they use or recommend each one for that job.

What creators say

Picks Claude · 7

"Previously Grok Bot was using Grok 4.7 as a default and the Grok models aren't necessarily bad, but they're nowhere near as smart as Opus."

Peter Yang

"But what it does have is data and maybe I can use that data to power Grok. And then he tried Grok. Now Grok is falling behind Anthropic and ChatGPT."

Shaan Puri

"You can go to Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, whatever you want to do. Any of the AIs I'm going to use Claude."

Chris Koerner

"If you're curious, check out Opus 5.5. Opus 5.5 is a special one — I really think it deserves a special mention. If there's a winner for me, it's Opus this week in launches. I really just can't put into words how awesome Opus 5.5 is."

KK Kieran Klaassen

Uses both · 6

"I start with Grok, GLM-5.2, and I also put it into Claude and the results are as good or better. I can't even tell the difference between these."

JC Jason Calacanis

"I was getting an argument today with Claude in the car and sometimes I'll bounce between Claude, ChatGPT and Grok."

GM George Mack

"Sometimes I'll just ask Grok, and Grok is famously a little bit more unhinged. And so if I really care about like what is Twitter saying about the thing, cuz Twitter has strong opinions on both sides of the political divide, I'll just as..."

Ali Abdaal

"For me, I use Claude and Codex and products like that in a different part of the system. They're going to help me build the repo and generate the landing pages, writing scripts, building the little internal tools."

Greg Isenberg

Picks Grok · 6

"That's why I love Grockbot — it doesn't give you that 800 'well, maybe a better way to do this' responses. It just goes and does it and it's very intuitive. Claude's like 'I can't download that video,' and Grok's like 'yolo, hold my beer..."

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"Grok 4.6 is roughly the same performance as Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. 80% cheaper for input tokens and 88% cheaper for output tokens. Grok 4.6 is significantly better at difficult tasks and knowledge work. It combines Opus-class in..."

John Coogan

"I am so hooked on Grok Bot. I have it over here in my window. I have like 15 bots that I use every day, all the time. It has changed my life. I use it 100 times a day for all kinds of things. And I think it's safe to say it is the hottes..."

LR Lenny Rachitsky

"I haven't been excited about a tool like this maybe all year. Maybe this is my favorite this year. Most of the content I see around Grok Bot is wrong. They totally don't understand why this tool is powerful. Grok Bot does connections way..."

BH Billy Howell

Who's switching

Claude → Grok
1 creator said they moved

Lenny Rachitsky

Related

How this works: we read every podcast and YouTube transcript we track, find each time a creator compared these tools, and note which one they picked. A creator who picked differently at different times, or said they use both, counts as "use both". Sponsored mentions are left out. More about Followed.