Model comparison

Grok 4 Fast vs Ring-2.6-1T

Grok 4 Fast has enough public results to be ranked (#164); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Grok 4 Fast xAI

39.0

Rank #164 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Ring-2.6-1T leads 40.1 to 32.3.
  • Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 Fast and Ring-2.6-1T specifications
Grok 4 FastRing-2.6-1T
ProviderxAIAnt Group (inclusionAI)
Noometry Index39.036.3
Released2025-09-192026-05-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked303

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Category by category

Coding Ring-2.6-1T leads

Grok 4 Fast: 32.3 (#264), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.1

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastRing-2.6-1T
LMArena WebDev1160—
SciCode—42.4%
WeirdML42.9%—
LMArena Coding1429—
ALE-Bench—432.57

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 29.3 (#80), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastRing-2.6-1T
τ²-bench Banking15.7%—
Cybench30%—
LMArena Search1171—

Reasoning Ring-2.6-1T leads

Grok 4 Fast: 22.5 (#179), Ring-2.6-1T: 25.3

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastRing-2.6-1T
ARC-AGI-25.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark66.1%—
ARC-AGI-148.5%—
CritPt—3.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts1413—
DTBench82.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.21—
ForecastBench60.5—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 36.1 (#126), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Math1419—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 31.5 (#211), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastRing-2.6-1T
Vectara Hallucination Rate19.7%—
LMArena Expert1411—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 51.5 (#106), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Non-English1397—
LMArena Chinese1458—
LMArena French1433—
LMArena German1383—
LMArena Japanese1358—
LMArena Korean1359—
LMArena Russian1387—
LMArena Spanish1414—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 73.4 (#116), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Instruction Following1388—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastRing-2.6-1T
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1415—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 60.2 (#96), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Text1407—
LMArena Creative Writing1388—
LMArena Multi-Turn1414—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 Fast better than Ring-2.6-1T?

Grok 4 Fast has enough public results to be ranked (#164); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Grok 4 Fast or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?

Ring-2.6-1T scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 Fast and Ring-2.6-1T share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 Fast has 30 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.

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