Model comparison

Grok 4.1 Fast vs Phi-2

Grok 4.1 Fast has enough public results to be ranked (#131); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.1 Fast xAI

40.9

Rank #131 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.1 Fast and Phi-2 specifications
Grok 4.1 FastPhi-2
ProviderxAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index40.9—
Released2025-06-272023-12-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output30K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.20—
Output $ / M tokens$0.50—
Results tracked3211

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.1 Fast: 33.8 (#236), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1 FastPhi-2
LMArena WebDev1241—
LMArena Coding1411—
ALE-Bench394.93—
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.1 Fast: 36.1 (#35), Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1 FastPhi-2
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard69.6%—
τ²-bench Banking13.1%—
LMArena Search1171—
Vending-Bench 21,107—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4.1 Fast: 42.3 (#45), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1 FastPhi-2
SimpleBench56%—
NYT Connections (extended)87.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1407—
DTBench87.7%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—107.62
ForecastBench61—
HellaSwag—53.6%
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

Grok 4.1 Fast: 30.9 (#201), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1 FastPhi-2
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions60.9%—
ProofBench4%—
LMArena Math1408—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4.1 Fast: 32.6 (#203), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1 FastPhi-2
Vectara Hallucination Rate17.8%—
LMArena Expert1398—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
MMLU—58.4%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.1 Fast: 36.3 (#71), Phi-2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1 FastPhi-2
LMArena Vision1201—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.1 Fast: 51.1 (#110), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1 FastPhi-2
LMArena Non-English1391—
LMArena Chinese1441—
LMArena French1416—
LMArena German1404—
LMArena Japanese1347—
LMArena Korean1361—
LMArena Russian1387—
LMArena Spanish1411—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.1 Fast: 72.8 (#127), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1 FastPhi-2
LMArena Instruction Following1376—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.1 Fast: 42.4 (#121), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1 FastPhi-2
LMArena Longer Query1390—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.1 Fast: 57.4 (#126), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.1 FastPhi-2
LMArena Text1408—
LMArena Creative Writing1394—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1327—
LMArena Multi-Turn1389—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.1 Fast better than Phi-2?

Grok 4.1 Fast has enough public results to be ranked (#131); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 Fast and Phi-2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 Fast has 32 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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