Model comparison
GPT-4 Turbo vs Grok 4 Fast
Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 1 category and Grok 4 Fast in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4 Fast leads 36.1 to 8.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 18% for GPT-4 Turbo and 42.9% for Grok 4 Fast.
Side by side
| GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.3 | 39.0 |
| Released | 2023-11-06 | 2025-09-19 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $30 | — |
| Results tracked | 36 | 30 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 33.4 (#247), Grok 4 Fast: 32.3 (#264)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 18% | 42.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | 1429 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1160 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: —, Grok 4 Fast: 29.3 (#80)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast |
|---|---|---|
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 15.7% |
| Cybench | — | 30% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1171 |
| METR Time Horizons | 36.7% | — |
Reasoning Grok 4 Fast leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 14.9 (#311), Grok 4 Fast: 22.5 (#179)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1413 |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 82.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.25 | 144.21 |
| ForecastBench | 59.4 | 60.5 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 5.3% |
| SimpleBench | 25.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 48.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | — |
| LMCA | 9.8% | — |
Math Grok 4 Fast leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 8.6 (#316), Grok 4 Fast: 36.1 (#126)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1272 | 1419 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.7% | — |
Knowledge Grok 4 Fast leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#263), Grok 4 Fast: 31.5 (#211)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1411 |
| GPQA Diamond | 46.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 28.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 19.7% |
| MMLU | 81.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 30.0 (#104), Grok 4 Fast: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1090 | — |
Multilingual Grok 4 Fast leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 40.7 (#211), Grok 4 Fast: 51.5 (#106)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | 1397 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | 1458 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | 1433 |
| LMArena German | 1259 | 1383 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1194 | 1358 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1359 |
| LMArena Russian | 1259 | 1387 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | 1414 |
Instruction Following Grok 4 Fast leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 66.0 (#211), Grok 4 Fast: 73.4 (#116)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1250 | 1388 |
Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#200), Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1254 | 1415 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 94.4% |
Writing & Preference Grok 4 Fast leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 47.9 (#201), Grok 4 Fast: 60.2 (#96)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Grok 4 Fast |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1272 | 1407 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | 1388 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1267 | 1414 |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Grok 4 Fast?
Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-4 Turbo or Grok 4 Fast better for coding?
GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.4 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Grok 4 Fast share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 Fast has 30.