Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 4 leads 58.5 to 25.8.
  • Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
Grok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
ProviderxAIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index48.130.3
Released2025-07-09—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4810

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding14081016
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
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), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts1409993
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Math14221018
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
LMArena Expert1415—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1403977
LMArena Chinese14271014
LMArena Russian1410947
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1387978
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1409—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text14111032
LMArena Creative Writing1397990
LMArena Multi-Turn14161007
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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