Model comparison

GPT-5.5 Pro vs Grok 4

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI

64.3

Rank #8 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Grok 4 in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 Pro leads 73.3 to 36.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 84.6% for GPT-5.5 Pro and 16% for Grok 4.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 Pro and Grok 4 specifications
GPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
ProviderOpenAIxAI
Noometry Index64.348.1
Released2026-04-232025-07-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$180—
Results tracked1448

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
Aider Polyglot—79.6%
WeirdML—45.7%
LMArena Coding—1408

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—21.1%
Cybench—43%
DeepResearch Bench—47.3%
BALROG—43.6%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—66.6%

Reasoning GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 73.3 (#10), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
ARC-AGI-284.6%16%
SimpleBench76.9%60.5%
ARC-AGI-196.5%66.7%
Chess Puzzles64%28%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.07146.44
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.6%
CritPt30.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1409
DTBench96%—
LMCA53.9%—
ForecastBench—60.9

Math GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 84.0 (#10), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%84%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)52.4%19.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)39.6%2.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 478%—
Omni-MATH—60.3%
LMArena Math—1422

Knowledge GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 64.1 (#19), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
GPQA Diamond93.9%87%
MMLU-Pro—85.1%
Confabulations—12.4%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%
LMArena Expert—1415

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
LMArena Vision—1210
GeoBench—45%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
LMArena Non-English—1403
LMArena Chinese—1427
LMArena French—1418
LMArena German—1429
LMArena Japanese—1394
LMArena Korean—1377
LMArena Russian—1410
LMArena Spanish—1420

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
IFEval—94.9%
LMArena Instruction Following—1387

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%
LMArena Longer Query—1409

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok 4
LMArena Text—1411
LMArena Creative Writing—1397
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.9%
WildBench—79.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1416

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 Pro better than Grok 4?

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 Pro and Grok 4 share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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