Model comparison
GPT-4 Turbo vs Grok 4
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4 leads 48.4 to 9.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 6.7% for GPT-4 Turbo and 84% for Grok 4.
Side by side
| GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 48.1 |
| Released | 2023-11-06 | 2025-07-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $30 | — |
| Results tracked | 36 | 48 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 4 leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249), Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 18% | 45.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | 1408 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 79.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: —, Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 36.7% | 66.6% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 63% |
| GDPval | — | 21.1% |
| Cybench | — | 43% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 47.3% |
| BALROG | — | 43.6% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1142 |
Reasoning Grok 4 leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 25.1% | 60.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | 28% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1409 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.25 | 146.44 |
| ForecastBench | 59.4 | 60.9 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 16% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 73.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 66.7% |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LMCA | 9.8% | — |
Math Grok 4 leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | 84% |
| LMArena Math | 1272 | 1422 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 60.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 19.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge Grok 4 leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 46.6% | 87% |
| Confabulations | 28.4% | 12.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1415 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 72.7% |
| MMLU | 81.3% | — |
Multimodal Grok 4 leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110), Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1090 | 1210 |
| GeoBench | — | 45% |
Multilingual Grok 4 leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216), Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | 1403 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | 1427 |
| LMArena French | 1276 | 1418 |
| LMArena German | 1259 | 1429 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1194 | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1377 |
| LMArena Russian | 1259 | 1410 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | 1420 |
Instruction Following Grok 4 leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216), Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1387 |
| IFEval | — | 94.9% |
Long Context Grok 4 leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1254 | 1409 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 94.4% |
Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206), Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1272 | 1411 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | 1397 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1267 | 1416 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.9% |
| WildBench | — | 79.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Grok 4?
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-4 Turbo or Grok 4 better for coding?
Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Grok 4 share?
27 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.