Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Llama 3.2 1B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 1B Meta

20.1

Rank #354 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3.2 1B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 7.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 0.6% for Llama 3.2 1B.
  • Llama 3.2 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Llama 3.2 1B specifications
Grok 4Llama 3.2 1B
ProviderxAIMeta
Noometry Index48.120.1
Released2025-07-092024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—60K
Max output—54K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.027
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked4822

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.1 (#338)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 1B
LMArena Coding14081070
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—8.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—11.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Llama 3.2 1B: 14.6 (#150)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%10.8%
BALROG43.6%6.6%
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Llama 3.2 1B: 16.2 (#308)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 1B
Chess Puzzles28%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091044
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44101.99
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Llama 3.2 1B: 10.4 (#313)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%0.6%
LMArena Math14221086
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Llama 3.2 1B: 7.2 (#312)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 1B
GPQA Diamond87%23.9%
LMArena Expert14151007
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Llama 3.2 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 1B
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Llama 3.2 1B: 23.8 (#292)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 1B
LMArena Non-English1403973
LMArena Chinese1427959
LMArena German14291014
LMArena Russian1410941
LMArena French1418—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Llama 3.2 1B: 52.4 (#290)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 1B
LMArena Instruction Following13871031
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Llama 3.2 1B: 31.9 (#274)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 1B
LMArena Longer Query14091050
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.3 (#310)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 1B
LMArena Text14111055
LMArena Creative Writing13971033
LMArena Multi-Turn14161030
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—200
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Llama 3.2 1B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Llama 3.2 1B better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 21.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Llama 3.2 1B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 1B has 22.

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