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o3 Pro vs Grok 4

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Winner summary

o3 Pro wins 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · knowledge.

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coding·o3 Proreasoning·Grok 4knowledge·o3 Pro
Hype vs Reality
o3 Pro
#35 by perf·no signal
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Grok 4
#73 by perf·no signal
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Best value
5.0x better value than o3 Pro
o3 Pro
1.2 pts/$
$50.00/M
Grok 4
6.1 pts/$
$9.00/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
o3 ProGrok 4
Aider polyglot
o3 Pro leads by +5.3
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
o3 Pro
84.9
Grok 4
79.6
ARC-AGI
Grok 4 leads by +7.4
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
o3 Pro
59.3
Grok 4
66.7
ARC-AGI-2
Grok 4 leads by +11.1
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
o3 Pro
4.9
Grok 4
16.0
Fiction.LiveBench
o3 Pro leads by +2.8
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
o3 Pro
97.2
Grok 4
94.4
Lech Mazur Writing
o3 Pro leads by +5.6
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
o3 Pro
86.3
Grok 4
80.7
WeirdML
o3 Pro leads by +12.5
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
o3 Pro
58.2
Grok 4
45.7
Full benchmark table
Benchmarko3 ProGrok 4
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
84.979.6
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
59.366.7
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.
4.916.0
Fiction.LiveBench
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
97.294.4
Lech Mazur Writing
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
86.380.7
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
58.245.7
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoo3 Pro$20.00$80.00200K tokens (~100 books)$350.00
xAI logoGrok 4$3.00$15.00256K tokens (~128 books)$60.00