Model comparison

Grok 4.7 vs o3

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.1 to 47.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.7 xAI

53.1

Rank #37 Confirmed

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.7 scores higher in 7 categories and o3 in 3 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.7 leads 49.1 to 32.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 53% for Grok 4.7 and 33.3% for o3.
  • Grok 4.7 is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for o3.
  • Grok 4.7 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Grok 4.7 and o3 specifications
Grok 4.7o3
ProviderxAIOpenAI
Noometry Index53.147.5
Released2026-09-212025-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window500K200K
Max output500K100K
Input $ / M tokens$2$2
Output $ / M tokens$6$8
Results tracked3963

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 58.0 (#18), o3: 46.8 (#64)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7o3
LMArena Coding14271408
SWE-bench Verified—62.3%
FrontierCode47.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—58.4%
Aider Polyglot—81.3%
CursorBench46.3%—
LMArena WebDev1639—
FrontierSWE29.5%—
SciCode57.8%—
GSO—8.8%
WeirdML—52.4%
CadEval—74%
ALE-Bench—933.55

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 36.7 (#37), o3: 34.5 (#44)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7o3
APEX-Agents54.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—30.8%
DeepResearch Bench—45.2%
OSWorld—23%
GDP.pdf22.8%—
LMArena Search—1144
METR Time Horizons—65.4%
Vending-Bench 210,537—

Reasoning Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 49.1 (#40), o3: 32.0 (#78)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7o3
CritPt18%1.4%
Chess Puzzles38%38%
LMArena Hard Prompts14131402
Mystery Game Puzzles29%29%
DTBench96%84.8%
LMCA49.4%39.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.53146.86
ARC-AGI-2—6.5%
SimpleBench—53.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
NYT Connections (extended)76.8%—
ARC-AGI-1—60.8%
EnigmaEval—13.1%
ForecastBench—62.5

Math Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 57.8 (#39), o3: 50.2 (#58)

Knowledge Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 62.8 (#22), o3: 54.6 (#52)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7o3
GPQA Diamond92.7%81.8%
SimpleQA Verified56%49.4%
LMArena Expert14221402
Humanity's Last Exam—20.3%
MMLU-Pro—85.9%
Confabulations—14.4%
GPQA (HELM)—75.3%

Multimodal o3 leads

Grok 4.7: 35.5 (#87), o3: 41.4 (#36)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7o3
LMArena Vision12281214
GeoBench—74%
VPCT—52%
Blueprint-Bench 232.5%—
Furniture Assembly20.8%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Grok 4.7: 50.8 (#116), o3: 51.7 (#105)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7o3
LMArena Non-English13891401
LMArena Chinese14551437
LMArena French14551430
LMArena Russian13971406
LMArena Spanish14001395
LMArena German—1420
LMArena Japanese—1403
LMArena Korean—1370

Instruction Following Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 74.1 (#105), o3: 72.8 (#127)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7o3
LMArena Instruction Following14041368
IFEval—86.9%

Long Context o3 leads

Grok 4.7: 43.1 (#104), o3: 53.3 (#6)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7o3
LMArena Longer Query14131372
Fiction.LiveBench—88.9%
CL-bench—17.8%

Writing & Preference Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 70.0 (#24), o3: 63.5 (#64)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7o3
LMArena Text13991410
LMArena Creative Writing13911359
EQ-Bench Creative Writing20071676
LMArena Multi-Turn13931405
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.9%
WildBench—86.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.7 better than o3?

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.1 to 47.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.7 or o3?

Grok 4.7 is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; o3 lists at $2 and $8.

Is Grok 4.7 or o3 better for coding?

Grok 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.0 versus 46.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.7 does, with 500K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.7 and o3 share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.7 has 39 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.

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