Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Grok 4

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.4 to 47.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

64.4

Rank #6 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

47.8

Rank #49 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in 8 categories and Grok 4 in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 85.5 to 46.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 92.5% for GPT-5.6 Sol and 16% for Grok 4.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Sol and Grok 4 specifications
GPT-5.6 SolGrok 4
ProviderOpenAIxAI
Noometry Index64.447.8
Released2026-07-092025-07-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked6448

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 61.1 (#7), Grok 4: 49.9 (#44)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolGrok 4
WeirdML89.4%45.7%
LMArena Coding14931408
DeepSWE72.7%—
FrontierCode47.5%—
Aider Polyglot—79.6%
CursorBench41.7%—
LMArena WebDev1619—
FrontierSWE32.2%—
SciCode57.1%—
MirrorCode20%—
ALE-Bench2,177—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.2 (#7), Grok 4: 32.1 (#62)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolGrok 4
BALROG60%43.6%
LMArena Search12571142
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
APEX-Agents51.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
OSWorld 2.027.3%—
GDPval—21.1%
τ²-bench Banking46.9%—
Cybench—43%
DeepResearch Bench—47.3%
PostTrainBench36.2%—
GBAEval52.6%—
GDP.pdf30.7%—
METR Time Horizons—66.6%
Vending-Bench 29,619—

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.7 (#6), Grok 4: 36.9 (#59)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolGrok 4
ARC-AGI-292.5%16%
SimpleBench71.7%60.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark67%73.6%
ARC-AGI-197.5%66.7%
Chess Puzzles64%28%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811409
Epoch Capabilities Index161.99146.46
NYT Connections (extended)93.8%—
CritPt32.3%—
EnigmaEval37.1%—
EBR-Bench44.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA59.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench93.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench—60.9

Math GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.5 (#7), Grok 4: 46.5 (#58)

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#16), Grok 4: 53.7 (#50)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolGrok 4
GPQA Diamond93.5%87%
LMArena Expert15171417
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
MMLU-Pro—85.1%
Confabulations—12.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multimodal GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.9 (#8), Grok 4: 33.1 (#89)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolGrok 4
LMArena Vision12811211
GeoBench—45%
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
Furniture Assembly56.7%—
LMArena Document1483—

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.4 (#32), Grok 4: 52.0 (#98)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolGrok 4
LMArena Non-English14501403
LMArena Chinese15231428
LMArena French14751418
LMArena German14761429
LMArena Japanese14751396
LMArena Korean14341376
LMArena Russian14661409
LMArena Spanish14491419

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.8 (#16), Grok 4: 79.4 (#4)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolGrok 4
LMArena Instruction Following14801387
IFEval—94.9%

Long Context Grok 4 leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.3 (#42), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolGrok 4
LMArena Longer Query14791409
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.5 (#12), Grok 4: 58.7 (#111)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolGrok 4
LMArena Text14561412
LMArena Creative Writing14501397
LMArena Multi-Turn14561416
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1972—
WildBench—79.7%
EQ-Bench 41250—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Grok 4?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.4 to 47.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.6 Sol or Grok 4 better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 61.1 versus 49.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Sol and Grok 4 share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Sol has 64 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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