Model comparison

Grok 4.5 vs o1

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #25 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.5 scores higher in 9 categories and o1 in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.5 leads 56.1 to 27.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 87.2% for Grok 4.5 and 30.7% for o1.
  • Grok 4.5 is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • Grok 4.5 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Grok 4.5 and o1 specifications
Grok 4.5o1
ProviderxAIOpenAI
Noometry Index55.040.9
Released2026-07-082024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window500K200K
Max output500K100K
Input $ / M tokens$2$15
Output $ / M tokens$6$60
Results tracked5252

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 52.2 (#35), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5o1
WeirdML46.4%47.6%
LMArena Coding14741367
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.4%—
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
LMArena WebDev1553—
SciCode54.1%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
ALE-Bench1,309—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#17), o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5o1
APEX-Agents56.2%—
τ²-bench Banking47.9%—
Cybench—10%
PostTrainBench23.4%—
GBAEval65.4%—
GDP.pdf14%—
LMArena Search1213—
METR Time Horizons—51.1%
Vending-Bench 23,887—

Reasoning Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 56.1 (#25), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5o1
SimpleBench70%41.7%
ARC-AGI-187.2%30.7%
Chess Puzzles36%15%
LMArena Hard Prompts14621371
DTBench96.5%74.7%
LMCA45.2%22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.92141.91
ARC-AGI-252.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)79.9%—
CritPt15.4%—
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
Surface Evolver Bench74.4%—
LiveBench—75.7%

Math Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 60.9 (#35), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5o1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.2%14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%73.3%
LMArena Math14591388
FrontierMath Tier 424.4%—
ProofBench31%—
LiveBench Math—80.3%
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#24), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5o1
GPQA Diamond93.4%76.8%
SimpleQA Verified48.3%41.1%
LMArena Expert14661361
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
Confabulations—11.7%

Multimodal Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 37.6 (#72), o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5o1
LMArena Vision12881168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
Blueprint-Bench 227.3%—
Furniture Assembly22.5%—
LMArena Document1452—
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 54.4 (#42), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5o1
LMArena Non-English14401358
LMArena Chinese14961394
LMArena French14561344
LMArena German14461337
LMArena Japanese14281346
LMArena Korean14041396
LMArena Russian14481356
LMArena Spanish14501345

Instruction Following Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 76.0 (#48), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5o1
LMArena Instruction Following14461367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#56), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5o1
LMArena Longer Query14631378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 65.8 (#42), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5o1
LMArena Text14481366
LMArena Creative Writing14421348
LMArena Multi-Turn14561369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.5 better than o1?

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.5 or o1?

Grok 4.5 is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is Grok 4.5 or o1 better for coding?

Grok 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 46.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.5 does, with 500K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.5 and o1 share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.5 has 52 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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