Model comparison

Grok 4 Fast vs Solar Pro4

Solar Pro4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 Fast xAI

39.4

Rank #167 Confirmed

Solar Pro4 Upstage

42.1

Rank #121 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 Fast scores higher in 5 categories and Solar Pro4 in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 Fast leads 63.2 to 42.1.

Side by side

Grok 4 Fast and Solar Pro4 specifications
Grok 4 FastSolar Pro4
ProviderxAIUpstage
Noometry Index39.442.1
Released2025-09-192026-08-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—524K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked3018

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Category by category

Coding Solar Pro4 leads

Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271), Solar Pro4: 40.1 (#149)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastSolar Pro4
LMArena WebDev11591371
LMArena Coding14291437
WeirdML42.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86), Solar Pro4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastSolar Pro4
τ²-bench Banking15.7%—
Cybench30%—
LMArena Search1171—

Reasoning Solar Pro4 leads

Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201), Solar Pro4: 28.5 (#104)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastSolar Pro4
LMArena Hard Prompts14121399
ARC-AGI-25.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark66.1%—
ARC-AGI-148.5%—
DTBench82.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.2—
ForecastBench60.5—

Math Too close to call

Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123), Solar Pro4: 38.8 (#128)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastSolar Pro4
LMArena Math14191416

Knowledge Solar Pro4 leads

Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214), Solar Pro4: 39.8 (#129)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastSolar Pro4
LMArena Expert14111427
Vectara Hallucination Rate19.7%—

Multilingual Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111), Solar Pro4: 48.7 (#139)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastSolar Pro4
LMArena Non-English13961361
LMArena Chinese14571415
LMArena French14311397
LMArena German13831364
LMArena Japanese13521309
LMArena Korean13571382
LMArena Russian13891360
LMArena Spanish14151401

Instruction Following Too close to call

Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121), Solar Pro4: 72.7 (#132)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastSolar Pro4
LMArena Instruction Following13871377

Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3), Solar Pro4: 42.1 (#130)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastSolar Pro4
LMArena Longer Query14151381
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102), Solar Pro4: 56.5 (#138)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 FastSolar Pro4
LMArena Text14071386
LMArena Creative Writing13871316
LMArena Multi-Turn14141385

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 Fast better than Solar Pro4?

Solar Pro4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 Fast or Solar Pro4 better for coding?

Solar Pro4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 Fast and Solar Pro4 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 Fast has 30 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro4 has 18.

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