grok-2-1212: benchmark scores, price and ranking
grok-2-1212 from xAI ranks #677 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (43.4), based on 5 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.
- Organisation
- xAI
- Type
- Frontier model
- Open weights
- No
- Released
- 2024-12-12 (source: epoch)
- Aggregate rank
- #677 of 743 (score 43.4)
Relative to other models, grok-2-1212 is strongest on DTBench (#82 of 146) and weakest on SimpleBench (#54 of 61).
Across the 5 benchmarks where at least ten models are scored, grok-2-1212 is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.
grok-2-1212 benchmark results
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 65.2% | #82 of 146 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-13 |
| GPQA Diamond | 53.8% | #180 of 275 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-13 |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 11.5% | #137 of 189 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-13 |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | #92 of 109 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-13 |
| SimpleBench | 22.7% | #54 of 61 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-13 |
About grok-2-1212
grok-2-1212 is a frontier model from xAI. It was released on 2024-12-12, according to Epoch AI. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 5 benchmark results for it across 3 areas, and none is in the top tenth of its board.
Where grok-2-1212 stands
On our aggregate score, grok-2-1212 is #677 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 43.4; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 6.6 points below the typical model. That beats 9% of the ranked field. Among the 26 ranked xAI models it is #26. The next one up is grok-code-fast-1 at 44.3.
grok-2-1212, benchmark by benchmark
grok-2-1212 lands below the middle on DTBench: 65.2%, #82 of 146, with 55% of the field scoring higher. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 98.9%; the closest result above is qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507 at 67.2%. It covers dynamic tool-use benchmark. The board median is 68.8%, so grok-2-1212 is 3.6 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.
grok-2-1212 lands below the middle on GPQA Diamond: 53.8%, #180 of 275, with 65% of the field scoring higher. GPT-6 Astra (max) leads at 95.8%; the closest result above is Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Jun 2024) at 54.0%. It covers expert-level science questions. The board median is 71.7%, so grok-2-1212 is 17.9 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.
grok-2-1212 lands below the middle on OTIS Mock AIME: 11.5%, #137 of 189, with 72% of the field scoring higher. Claude Fable 5.1 (max) leads at 100.0%; the closest result above is phi-4 at 13.8%. It covers competition maths (AIME 2024-25 style). The board median is 57.8%, so grok-2-1212 is 46.2 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.
WeirdML is a weak spot. grok-2-1212 scores 22.2%, #92 of 109, behind 83% of the models measured. The leader, GPT-6 Astra (max), reaches 93.3%. It covers unusual machine-learning tasks. The board median is 41.2%, so grok-2-1212 is 18.9 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.
SimpleBench is a weak spot. grok-2-1212 scores 22.7%, #54 of 61, behind 87% of the models measured. The leader, Claude Fable 5 (max), reaches 81.9%. It covers trick questions that test common sense. The board median is 41.4%, so grok-2-1212 is 18.7 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.
Strengths and weaknesses
Reasoning, maths and science: weak, ahead of 25% of the field on average across 3 benchmarks. Its best board here is GPQA Diamond (#180 of 275) and its weakest is SimpleBench (#54 of 61).
Release history
The xAI model released before it was Grok-2 on 2024-12-12, which scores 49.6. The next one was grok-3 on 2025-02-19, at 46.5.
Reading these numbers
The 5 scores on this page come from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (5). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 5 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.
Models ranked nearby
- #674 Mistral Medium 3.5 (43.5)
- #675 Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct (43.4)
- #676 Qwen2-1.5B (43.4)
- #678 qwen3-8b (43.4)
- #679 Llama-3.2-3B (43.4)
- #680 mistral-large-2407 (43.3)
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- Grok 4.5 (high) (#85, 52.0)
- Grok 4.20 (Reasoning) (#136, 51.2)
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