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Grok 4 vs Grok 4 Fast

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Winner summary

Grok 4 wins 5 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · coding · knowledge.

Category leads
reasoning·Grok 4coding·Grok 4knowledge·Grok 4
Hype vs Reality
Grok 4
#73 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Grok 4 Fast
#95 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
23.6x better value than Grok 4
Grok 4
6.1 pts/$
$9.00/M
Grok 4 Fast
144.0 pts/$
$0.35/M
Vendor risk
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Grok 4Grok 4 Fast
ARC-AGI
Grok 4 leads by +18.2
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Grok 4
66.7
Grok 4 Fast
48.5
ARC-AGI-2
Grok 4 leads by +10.7
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Grok 4
16.0
Grok 4 Fast
5.3
Cybench
Grok 4 leads by +13.0
Cybench · evaluates AI on real Capture-The-Flag cybersecurity challenges, testing vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and security reasoning.
Grok 4
43.0
Grok 4 Fast
30.0
Fiction.LiveBench
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
Grok 4
94.4
Grok 4 Fast
94.4
Lech Mazur Writing
Grok 4 Fast leads by +0.5
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
Grok 4
80.7
Grok 4 Fast
81.1
WeirdML
Grok 4 leads by +2.9
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Grok 4
45.7
Grok 4 Fast
42.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGrok 4Grok 4 Fast
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
66.748.5
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
16.05.3
Cybench
Cybench · evaluates AI on real Capture-The-Flag cybersecurity challenges, testing vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and security reasoning.
43.030.0
Fiction.LiveBench
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
94.494.4
Lech Mazur Writing
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
80.781.1
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
45.742.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
xAI logoGrok 4$3.00$15.00256K tokens (~128 books)$60.00
xAI logoGrok 4 Fast$0.20$0.502.0M tokens (~1,000 books)$2.75