Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Grok 4 Fast

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Grok 4 Fast xAI

39.4

Rank #167 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 9 categories and Grok 4 Fast in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 leads 56.6 to 32.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 60.7% for GPT-5 and 42.9% for Grok 4 Fast.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Grok 4 Fast specifications
GPT-5Grok 4 Fast
ProviderOpenAIxAI
Noometry Index50.939.4
Released2025-08-072025-09-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6930

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Grok 4 Fast
LMArena WebDev14181159
WeirdML60.7%42.9%
LMArena Coding14361429
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Search11331171
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
τ²-bench Banking—15.7%
Cybench—30%
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Grok 4 Fast
ARC-AGI-29.9%5.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%66.1%
ARC-AGI-165.7%48.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14161412
DTBench90.7%82.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index150144.2
ForecastBench61.460.5
SimpleBench56.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LMCA40%—

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Math14071419
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench18%—
Omni-MATH64.7%—
MATH Level 598.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Grok 4 Fast
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%19.7%
LMArena Expert14191411
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Grok 4 Fast: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual Too close to call

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Non-English13971396
LMArena Chinese14221457
LMArena French14101431
LMArena German14161383
LMArena Japanese14091352
LMArena Korean13601357
LMArena Russian14061389
LMArena Spanish13991415

Instruction Following Too close to call

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Instruction Following13881387
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Grok 4 Fast
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%94.4%
LMArena Longer Query13991415

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Text14061407
LMArena Creative Writing13651387
LMArena Multi-Turn14261414
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Grok 4 Fast?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Grok 4 Fast better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Grok 4 Fast share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 Fast has 30.

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