Grok-2 (Dec 2024): benchmark scores, price and ranking

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) from xAI is a recent or sparsely tested model with 1 benchmark result on record; it has not been measured on enough benchmarks shared with other models to receive an aggregate rank. This page lists every score we have, based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: xAI
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2024-12-12 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price: $2.00 in / $10.00 out per million tokens (via vercel_ai_gateway, observed 2026-10-13T21:47Z)
Aggregate rank: Not ranked yet (too few shared benchmarks)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.

Its cheapest listed input price, $2.00 per million tokens, is lower than that of 18% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) benchmark results

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Epoch ECI	130	#86 of 204	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About Grok-2 (Dec 2024)

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is a frontier model from xAI. It was released on 2024-12-12, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens, through vercel_ai_gateway. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Grok-2 (Dec 2024) stands

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 1 result so far and shares too few benchmarks with other models to get an aggregate rank. The rank will appear on its own once more scores are published.

Grok-2 (Dec 2024), benchmark by benchmark

Epoch ECI puts Grok-2 (Dec 2024) at 130, #86 of 204. That beats 58% of the models tested, but 26 points short of Qwen 3.8 Max (156). The results either side are Magistral Small 1.2 (131) and phi-4 (130). It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is 3 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Release history

The xAI model released before it was grok-2-1212 on 2024-12-12, which scores 43.4. The next one was grok-3 on 2025-02-19, at 46.5.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.