Model comparison
GPT-5.4 vs Grok 3
GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 9 categories and Grok 3 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 leads 61.8 to 13.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 93.7% for GPT-5.4 and 5.5% for Grok 3.
Side by side
| GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 59.4 | 39.9 |
| Released | 2026-03-05 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $15 | — |
| Results tracked | 68 | 40 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5.4 leads
GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 77.7% | 37.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1497 | 1432 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.9% | — |
| DeepSWE | 51.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 53.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1465 | — |
| SciCode | 56.6% | — |
| GSO | 31.4% | — |
| MirrorCode | 15.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,607 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.85 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 leads
GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 81.8% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 52.4% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 39.4% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 35.1% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 19% | — |
| BALROG | — | 29.5% |
| GBAEval | 45.1% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1197 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 74.3% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,144 | — |
Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads
GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19), Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 74% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 63.8% | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 93.7% | 5.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1485 | 1434 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.81 | 138.33 |
| SimpleBench | — | 36.1% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 91.3% | — |
| CritPt | 23.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 44% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 16% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 80% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 25.4% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 37% | — |
| DTBench | 94.4% | — |
| LMCA | 52% | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.5 | — |
Math GPT-5.4 leads
GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 97.8% | 55.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1488 | 1391 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 47.6% | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 27.1% | 0% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 78.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 49% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 83.1% | — |
| ProofBench | 56% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 88.7% |
Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads
GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.3% | 75.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7% | 5.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1507 | 1421 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 36.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 45.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.8% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), Grok 3: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1303 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 27.1% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 37.5% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1471 | — |
Multilingual GPT-5.4 leads
GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1465 | 1410 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1519 | 1448 |
| LMArena French | 1493 | 1460 |
| LMArena German | 1472 | 1431 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1485 | 1387 |
| LMArena Korean | 1448 | 1373 |
| LMArena Russian | 1480 | 1416 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | 1417 |
Instruction Following GPT-5.4 leads
GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1469 | 1409 |
| IFEval | — | 88.4% |
Long Context GPT-5.4 leads
GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1473 | 1439 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 58.3% |
| CL-bench | 27.9% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 21.7% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads
GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1469 | 1426 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1439 | 1414 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1840 | 1186 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1482 | 1425 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.4% |
| WildBench | — | 84.9% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1272 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5.4 better than Grok 3?
GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-5.4 or Grok 3 better for coding?
GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 41.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and Grok 3 share?
28 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.