vs
1:2
overall capability wins (0 ties across 3 scored). Grok 4.1 leads overall.
- Arena1:0
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Grok 4.1 ranks higher on LMArena (+17 Elo); Grok 4.3 offers ~3.9x larger context (1M vs 256K); Grok 4.3 allows ~2.0x more max output (128K vs 64K).
- Grok 4.1 ranks higher on LMArena (+17 Elo)
- Grok 4.3 offers ~3.9x larger context (1M vs 256K)
- Grok 4.3 allows ~2.0x more max output (128K vs 64K)
- Grok 4.3 is ~3.8x cheaper on a blended token basis than Grok 4.1
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Grok 4.1
- $6.75
- Grok 4.3
- $1.88
Grok 4.3 is about 3.6x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
xAI
xAI
Family
Grok
Grok
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Mar 10, 2026
Jun 15, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
2026-02-01
API / provider
xAI
xAI
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
256K
1M
Max output
64K
128K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$3
$1.25
Output $/1M
$15
$2.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$6
$1.56
Speed
tok/s
75
110
TTFT (s)
0.45
0.3
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
90.1
Humanity's Last Exam
—
37.2
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
34.8
AA-LCR v1.1
—
73.0
CritPt
—
8.0
MMMU-Pro
—
78.1
IFBench
—
81.3
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
39.7
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
48.3
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,357
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,459
1,443
| Metric | Grok 4.1 | Grok 4.3 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | xAI | xAI | — |
| Family | Grok | Grok | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Mar 10, 2026 | Jun 15, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | 2026-02-01 | — |
| API / provider | xAI | xAI | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 1M | B +744K |
| Max output | 64K | 128K | B +64K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $3 | $1.25 | B +$1.75 |
| Output $/1M | $15 | $2.50 | B +$12.50 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $6 | $1.56 | B +$4.44 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 75 | 110 | B +35 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.45 | 0.3 | B +0.15 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 90.1 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 37.2 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 34.8 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 73.0 | — |
| CritPt | — | 8.0 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 78.1 | — |
| IFBench | — | 81.3 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 39.7 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 48.3 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,357 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,459 | 1,443 | A +17 Elo |
Grok 4.1
- Context
- 256K / 64K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $3 / $15
- Speed
- 75 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Earlier Grok 4.1 release; still available alongside newer 4.20 / 4.5 SKUs.
Grok 4.3
- Context
- 1M / 128K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.25 / $2.50
- Speed
- 110 tok/s · 0.3s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Fast tool-calling Grok with 1M context at $1.25/$2.50 (doubles above 200k prompt tokens); aliased as grok-latest.
Benchmark charts
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