Model comparison

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) vs video-SALMONN 2+

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) has enough public results to be ranked (#48); video-SALMONN 2+ does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) xAI

48.5

Rank #48 Confirmed

video-SALMONN 2+ ByteDance Seed

40.8

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where video-SALMONN 2+ leads 41.7 to 33.2.

Side by side

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) and video-SALMONN 2+ specifications
Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
ProviderxAIByteDance Seed
Noometry Index48.540.8
Released2026-02-172025-06-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output30K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked461

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 41.8 (#104), video-SALMONN 2+: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
LMArena WebDev1374—
WeirdML52.3%—
LMArena Coding1458—
ALE-Bench1,150—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 34.3 (#43), video-SALMONN 2+: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
Terminal-Bench57.3%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
LMArena Search1189—
Vending-Bench 24,663—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 52.2 (#30), video-SALMONN 2+: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
ARC-AGI-265.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark75%—
NYT Connections (extended)85.4%—
ARC-AGI-189.5%—
Chess Puzzles24%—
Thematic Generalization63.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1451—
DTBench90.1%—
LMCA38.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.01—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 48.0 (#54), video-SALMONN 2+: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)44.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%—
ProofBench14%—
LMArena Math1455—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 52.8 (#54), video-SALMONN 2+: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
GPQA Diamond89.3%—
SimpleQA Verified30.2%—
LMArena Expert1440—

Multimodal video-SALMONN 2+ leads

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 33.2 (#88), video-SALMONN 2+: 41.7

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
LMArena Vision1263—
Video-MME—79.7%
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1416—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 54.7 (#38), video-SALMONN 2+: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
LMArena Non-English1440—
LMArena Chinese1481—
LMArena French1477—
LMArena German1463—
LMArena Japanese1450—
LMArena Korean1417—
LMArena Russian1457—
LMArena Spanish1442—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 75.0 (#79), video-SALMONN 2+: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 45.4 (#33), video-SALMONN 2+: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
CL-bench22.2%—
CL-bench Life11.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1436—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 65.9 (#42), video-SALMONN 2+: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)video-SALMONN 2+
LMArena Text1451—
LMArena Creative Writing1439—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1574—
LMArena Multi-Turn1456—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) better than video-SALMONN 2+?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) has enough public results to be ranked (#48); video-SALMONN 2+ does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) and video-SALMONN 2+ share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) has 46 scored results on Noometry and video-SALMONN 2+ has 1.

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