Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Grok 4 Fast

Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Grok 4 Fast xAI

39.4

Rank #167 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4 Fast in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4 Fast leads 38.9 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 4.5% for GPT-4o and 48.5% for Grok 4 Fast.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Grok 4 Fast specifications
GPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
ProviderOpenAIxAI
Noometry Index28.639.4
Released2024-05-132025-09-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7230

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
WeirdML25.1%42.9%
LMArena Coding12971429
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1159
GSO0%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
Cybench12.5%30%
LMArena Search10061171
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
τ²-bench Banking—15.7%
BALROG32.3%—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
ARC-AGI-20%5.3%
ARC-AGI-14.5%48.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts12811412
DTBench64.5%82.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97144.2
ForecastBench57.760.5
SimpleBench17.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.1%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
LMArena Math12851419
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%19.7%
LMArena Expert12501411
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Grok 4 Fast: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
LMArena Non-English12831396
LMArena Chinese12771457
LMArena French13041431
LMArena German12821383
LMArena Japanese12571352
LMArena Korean12341357
LMArena Russian12861389
LMArena Spanish12921415

Instruction Following Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
LMArena Instruction Following12781387
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%94.4%
LMArena Longer Query12891415

Writing & Preference Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGrok 4 Fast
LMArena Text13001407
LMArena Creative Writing12921387
LMArena Multi-Turn13021414
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Grok 4 Fast?

Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4o or Grok 4 Fast better for coding?

Grok 4 Fast scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Grok 4 Fast share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 Fast has 30.

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