Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Ring-2.6-1T

Grok 4 has enough public results to be ranked (#49); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Grok 4 xAI

47.8

Rank #49 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4 leads 36.9 to 25.3.
  • Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Ring-2.6-1T specifications
Grok 4Ring-2.6-1T
ProviderxAIAnt Group (inclusionAI)
Noometry Index47.836.3
Released2025-07-092026-05-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked483

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 49.9 (#44), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.1

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ring-2.6-1T
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
SciCode—42.4%
WeirdML45.7%—
LMArena Coding1408—
ALE-Bench—432.57

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.1 (#62), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ring-2.6-1T
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: 36.9 (#59), Ring-2.6-1T: 25.3

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ring-2.6-1T
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
CritPt—3.7%
Chess Puzzles28%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1409—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.46—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4: 46.5 (#58), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ring-2.6-1T
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
LMArena Math1422—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4: 53.7 (#50), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ring-2.6-1T
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
LMArena Expert1417—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.1 (#89), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Vision1211—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4: 52.0 (#98), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Non-English1403—
LMArena Chinese1428—
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1396—
LMArena Korean1376—
LMArena Russian1409—
LMArena Spanish1419—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4: 79.4 (#4), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ring-2.6-1T
IFEval94.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1387—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ring-2.6-1T
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1409—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4: 58.7 (#111), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Text1412—
LMArena Creative Writing1397—
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1416—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Ring-2.6-1T?

Grok 4 has enough public results to be ranked (#49); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Grok 4 or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.9 versus 40.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Ring-2.6-1T share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.

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