Model comparison

GPT-5.1 vs Grok 4 Fast

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

Grok 4 Fast xAI

39.4

Rank #167 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Grok 4 Fast in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.1 leads 50.6 to 32.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 72.8% for GPT-5.1 and 48.5% for Grok 4 Fast.

Side by side

GPT-5.1 and Grok 4 Fast specifications
GPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
ProviderOpenAIxAI
Noometry Index49.039.4
Released2025-11-132025-09-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6330

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66), Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
LMArena WebDev13951159
WeirdML60.8%42.9%
LMArena Coding14541429
SWE-bench Verified68%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
SciCode43.3%—
GSO13.7%—
LiveBench Coding72.5%—
ALE-Bench1,192—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60), Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Search11991171
Terminal-Bench47.6%—
τ²-bench Banking—15.7%
Cybench—30%
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
Vending-Bench 21,473—

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58), Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
ARC-AGI-217.6%5.3%
ARC-AGI-172.8%48.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14571412
DTBench90.1%82.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.64144.2
ForecastBench58.160.5
SimpleBench53.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.1%
CritPt4.9%—
Chess Puzzles32%—
EnigmaEval11.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning95.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
LiveBench Data Analysis72.1%—
LMCA43.9%—
LiveBench78.8%—

Math GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51), Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Math14471419
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.6%—
Omni-MATH46.4%—
LiveBench Math94.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)31%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71), Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%19.7%
LMArena Expert14701411
GPQA Diamond87.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam23.7%—
SimpleQA Verified48%—
MMLU-Pro57.9%—
GPQA (HELM)44.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19), Grok 4 Fast: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Vision1250—
VPCT58.7%—
LMArena Document1403—

Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56), Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Non-English14311396
LMArena Chinese14951457
LMArena French14501431
LMArena German14381383
LMArena Japanese14531352
LMArena Korean14011357
LMArena Russian14351389
LMArena Spanish14331415

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1), Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Instruction Following14431387
LiveBench Instruction Following93.3%—
IFEval93.5%—

Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Longer Query14471415
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%
CL-bench23.7%—
CL-bench Life17.3%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55), Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Text14431407
LMArena Creative Writing14271387
LMArena Multi-Turn14501414
WildBench86.3%—
LiveBench Language80.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1 better than Grok 4 Fast?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.1 or Grok 4 Fast better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Grok 4 Fast share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 Fast has 30.

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