Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Grok 4

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Grok 4 in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 36.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 85% for GPT-5.5 and 16% for Grok 4.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and Grok 4 specifications
GPT-5.5Grok 4
ProviderOpenAIxAI
Noometry Index63.448.1
Released2026-04-232025-07-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$30—
Results tracked7148

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Grok 4
WeirdML84.9%45.7%
LMArena Coding14941408
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
Aider Polyglot—79.6%
LMArena WebDev1513—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Grok 4
Terminal-Bench84.7%27.2%
DeepResearch Bench54%47.3%
LMArena Search12421142
APEX-Agents55.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
OSWorld 2.013%—
GDPval—21.1%
Remote Labor Index6.3%—
τ²-bench Banking44.6%—
Cybench—43%
PostTrainBench27.2%—
BALROG—43.6%
ExploitBench47.4%—
GBAEval53.2%—
GDP.pdf26%—
METR Time Horizons—66.6%
Vending-Bench 27,524—

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Grok 4
ARC-AGI-285%16%
SimpleBench69%60.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%73.6%
ARC-AGI-195%66.7%
Chess Puzzles54%28%
LMArena Hard Prompts14891409
Epoch Capabilities Index159.1146.44
ForecastBench60.660.9
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
CritPt27.1%—
EBR-Bench34.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA54.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—

Math GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Grok 4
GPQA Diamond94%87%
LMArena Expert15081415
SimpleQA Verified63%—
MMLU-Pro—85.1%
Confabulations—12.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multimodal GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Grok 4
LMArena Vision12971210
GeoBench—45%
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Grok 4
LMArena Non-English14671403
LMArena Chinese15331427
LMArena French14861418
LMArena German14801429
LMArena Japanese14981394
LMArena Korean14601377
LMArena Russian14731410
LMArena Spanish14681420

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18), Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Grok 4
LMArena Instruction Following14791387
IFEval—94.9%

Long Context Grok 4 leads

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Grok 4
LMArena Longer Query14841409
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%
CL-bench Life22.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Grok 4
LMArena Text14721411
LMArena Creative Writing14551397
LMArena Multi-Turn14761416
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
WildBench—79.7%
EQ-Bench 41315—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than Grok 4?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.5 or Grok 4 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 50.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Grok 4 share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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