I want to say
"They belong to different classes."
Is it right to say
"They differ in class." ?
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The second sentence is perfectly fine for some meanings of class but not others. The first sentence uses class to refer to a grouping, as a count noun.
However, the second sentence only works if class is also an intrinsic quality (social standing, technical complexity, biological taxonomy, etc).