Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Llama 3.2 90B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4 leads 48.4 to 11.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 2.6% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Llama 3.2 90B specifications
Grok 4Llama 3.2 90B
ProviderxAIMeta
Noometry Index48.127.5
Released2025-07-092024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked489

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 90B
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
LMArena Coding1408—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 90B
BALROG43.6%27.3%
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 90B
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44125.5
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
EnigmaEval—0.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1409—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%2.6%
Omni-MATH60.3%—
LMArena Math1422—
MATH Level 5—39.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond87%41%
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
LMArena Expert1415—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision12101000
GeoBench45%52%

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1403—
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—
LMArena Russian1410—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 90B
IFEval94.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1387—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 90B
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1409—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1411—
LMArena Creative Writing1397—
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1416—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Llama 3.2 90B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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