Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Llama 13b

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 13b in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 4 leads 58.5 to 13.8.
  • Llama 13b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Llama 13b specifications
Grok 4Llama 13b
ProviderxAIMeta
Noometry Index48.124.4
Released2025-07-092023-02-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4821

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 13b
LMArena Coding1408683
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Llama 13b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 13b
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 13b
LMArena Hard Prompts1409728
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44100.58
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.9%
ForecastBench60.9—
HellaSwag—79.2%
LAMBADA—75.2%
PIQA—80.1%
WinoGrande—73%

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 13b
LMArena Math1422838
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—
GSM8K—20.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Llama 13b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 13b
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
LMArena Expert1415—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—52.7%
BoolQ—78.7%
MMLU—47.7%
OpenBookQA—56.4%
TriviaQA—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Llama 13b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 13b
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—
ScienceQA—43.3%

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 13b
LMArena Non-English1403819
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—
LMArena Russian1410—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 13b
LMArena Instruction Following1387781
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Llama 13b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 13b
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1409—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 13b
LMArena Text1411834
LMArena Creative Writing1397794
LMArena Multi-Turn1416753
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Llama 13b?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Llama 13b better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Llama 13b share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.

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