Model comparison

Grok 4.6 vs NVILA 8B

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#21); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

NVILA 8B NVIDIA

37.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Grok 4.6 leads 43.6 to 35.0.
  • NVILA 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.6 and NVILA 8B specifications
Grok 4.6NVILA 8B
ProviderxAINVIDIA
Noometry Index56.937.3
Released2026-08-122024-12-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K—
Max output500K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked491

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16), NVILA 8B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6NVILA 8B
DeepSWE67.5%—
FrontierCode48%—
CursorBench41.4%—
LMArena WebDev1617—
FrontierSWE25.3%—
SciCode56.5%—
WeirdML67.3%—
LMArena Coding1465—
ALE-Bench1,508—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#27), NVILA 8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6NVILA 8B
APEX-Agents65.3%—
GDP.pdf17.2%—
Vending-Bench 29,047—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20), NVILA 8B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6NVILA 8B
ARC-AGI-267.1%—
SimpleBench75.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)80%—
ARC-AGI-187.5%—
CritPt19.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
EBR-Bench30.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1447—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
DTBench97.3%—
LMCA48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.44—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24), NVILA 8B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6NVILA 8B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.2%—
ProofBench51%—
LMArena Math1423—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20), NVILA 8B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6NVILA 8B
GPQA Diamond94%—
SimpleQA Verified49.3%—
LMArena Expert1467—

Multimodal Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23), NVILA 8B: 35.0

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6NVILA 8B
LMArena Vision1263—
Video-MME—64.2%
Blueprint-Bench 233.2%—
Furniture Assembly40%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74), NVILA 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6NVILA 8B
LMArena Non-English1420—
LMArena Chinese1480—
LMArena French1461—
LMArena German1431—
LMArena Japanese1376—
LMArena Korean1397—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1404—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 75.4 (#63), NVILA 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6NVILA 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1431—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66), NVILA 8B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6NVILA 8B
LMArena Longer Query1454—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80), NVILA 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6NVILA 8B
LMArena Text1428—
LMArena Creative Writing1428—
LMArena Multi-Turn1425—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than NVILA 8B?

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#21); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.6 and NVILA 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.6 has 49 scored results on Noometry and NVILA 8B has 1.

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