Grok 4: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Grok 4 from xAI ranks #39 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (53.2), based on 2 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: xAI
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2025-07-09 (source: curated)
Cheapest API price: $3.00 in / $15.00 out per million tokens (via azure_ai, observed 2026-10-13T20:47Z)
Aggregate rank: #39 of 743 (score 53.2)

Across the 2 benchmarks where at least ten models are scored, Grok 4 is in the top 10% on 1 and in the top half on 2.

Its cheapest listed input price, $3.00 per million tokens, is lower than that of 11% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Grok 4 benchmark results

Grok 4 benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Aider Polyglot	79.6%	#2 of 49	Aider polyglot leaderboard	2026-10-13
Epoch ECI	146	#22 of 204	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About Grok 4

Grok 4 is a frontier model from xAI. It was released on 2025-07-09, according to the developer's announcement. The cheapest API listing we track charges $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens, through azure_ai. We hold 2 benchmark results for it across 2 areas, and 1 is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Grok 4 stands

On our aggregate score, Grok 4 is #39 of 743 ranked models, in the top fifty. Its score is 53.2; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 3.2 points above the typical model. That beats 95% of the ranked field. Among the 26 ranked xAI models it is #3. The next one up is grok-4-0709 at 53.2. The next one down is Grok 4.7 (xhigh) at 53.1.

Grok 4, benchmark by benchmark

On Aider Polyglot, Grok 4 scores 79.6% and ranks #2 of 49. Only one model scores higher, led by gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 at 83.1%, which is 3.5 points ahead. It covers edits across 6 languages (225 exercises). The board median is 44.9%, so Grok 4 is 34.7 points above it. Source: Aider polyglot leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

On Epoch ECI, Grok 4 reaches 146. It ranks #22 of 204, ahead of 89% of the field, and 10 points behind Qwen 3.8 Max at 156. The results either side are Qwen3.6 27B (146) and DeepSeek-V3.2 (146). It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Grok 4 is 19 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Strengths and weaknesses

Grok 4 has too few results on boards with ten or more models to say where it is strong or weak. Treat any single score as a data point, not a verdict.

Price and value

The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so Grok 4 costs more than the typical listing. Models that score within 1.5 points or better and cost less: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) ($0.016, 53.1), Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct ($0.070, 52.7), GLM-5.3 (max) ($0.079, 53.8). Similar scores cost more on Claude Opus 4.7 (max) ($5.00) and Claude Opus 4.6 (max) ($5.00).

Release history

The xAI model released before it was Grok 3 mini on 2025-02-19, which scores 49.4. The next one was grok-4-0709 on 2025-07-09, at 53.2.

Reading these numbers

The 2 scores on this page come from 2 sources: Aider polyglot leaderboard (1), Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). 1 of them come from an official leaderboard and 1 from datasets or third-party runs. The leaderboard also lists 1 other reasoning-effort setting of this model, which redirect here. This page shows the highest. With 2 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

Grok 4 is also listed at 1 other reasoning-effort setting; this page shows the highest-effort row, which is the one the leaderboard keeps by default.

Models ranked nearby

#36 Claude Code + Opus 5.5 (53.4)
#37 Qwen3.8 Max (xhigh) (53.2)
#38 grok-4-0709 (53.2)
#40 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-NVFP4 (53.1)
#41 Grok 4.7 (xhigh) (53.1)
#42 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) (53.1)