Model comparison
Grok 4 Fast vs Llama 4 Maverick
Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 Fast scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 Fast leads 63.2 to 31.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 94.4% for Grok 4 Fast and 46.2% for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2025-09-19 | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.19 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.65 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 42.9% | 24.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1429 | 1302 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1159 | — |
| SciCode | — | 33.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 61.4% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 172.97 |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.3% |
| τ²-bench Banking | 15.7% | — |
| Cybench | 30% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1171 | — |
Reasoning Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.3% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 66.1% | 55.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 48.5% | 4.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1412 | 1281 |
| DTBench | 82.7% | 61.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.2 | 132.2 |
| ForecastBench | 60.5 | 57.5 |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.7% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| LMCA | — | 15.9% |
Math Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1419 | 1299 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 20.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 42.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |
Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads
Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 19.7% | 8.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1411 | 1259 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 67% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok 4 Fast: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |
Multilingual Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1396 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1457 | 1277 |
| LMArena French | 1431 | 1259 |
| LMArena German | 1383 | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1352 | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | 1357 | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | 1389 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1415 | 1293 |
Instruction Following Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | 1267 |
| IFEval | — | 90.8% |
Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | 46.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1415 | 1280 |
Writing & Preference Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1407 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1387 | 1267 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1414 | 1289 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 860 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4 Fast better than Llama 4 Maverick?
Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 4 Fast or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?
Grok 4 Fast scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4 Fast and Llama 4 Maverick share?
26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 Fast has 30 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.