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Model comparison

Grok 4.6 vs WizardLM-2 8x22B

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#21); WizardLM-2 8x22B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

WizardLM-2 8x22B Microsoft

31.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Grok 4.6 scores higher in 2 categories and WizardLM-2 8x22B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4.6 leads 63.3 to 23.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94% for Grok 4.6 and 43.4% for WizardLM-2 8x22B.
  • WizardLM-2 8x22B is cheaper at $0.62 / $0.62 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Grok 4.6.
  • Grok 4.6 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 66K.
  • WizardLM-2 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
ProviderxAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index56.931.4
Released2026-08-122024-04-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K66K
Max output500K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.62
Output $ / M tokens$6$0.62
Results tracked492

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
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), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
APEX-Agents65.3%—
GDP.pdf17.2%—
Vending-Bench 29,047—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
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 Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24), WizardLM-2 8x22B: 28.9

BenchmarkGrok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.2%—
ProofBench51%—
LMArena Math1423—
MATH Level 5—25.7%

Knowledge Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20), WizardLM-2 8x22B: 23.3

BenchmarkGrok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
GPQA Diamond94%43.4%
SimpleQA Verified49.3%—
LMArena Expert1467—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Vision1263—
Blueprint-Bench 233.2%—
Furniture Assembly40%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
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), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following1431—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query1454—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Text1428—
LMArena Creative Writing1428—
LMArena Multi-Turn1425—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than WizardLM-2 8x22B?

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#21); WizardLM-2 8x22B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.6 or WizardLM-2 8x22B?

WizardLM-2 8x22B is cheaper. It lists at $0.62 per million input tokens and $0.62 per million output tokens; Grok 4.6 lists at $2 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.6 does, with 500K tokens against 66K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.6 and WizardLM-2 8x22B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Grok 4.6 has 49 scored results on Noometry and WizardLM-2 8x22B has 2.

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