Grok Beta: Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis
Analysis of xAI's Grok Beta and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more. Click on any model to compare API providers for that model. For more details including relating to our methodology, see our FAQs.
This is Grok-2 Beta, weights and any other information are not openly released until the next version of Grok is out! https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1842248588149117013
xAI has launched a newer model, Grok 2. We suggest considering this model instead of Grok Beta. See the following pages for a comparison of Grok 2 to other models and Grok 2 API provider benchmarks.
Comparison Summary
Intelligence:
Grok Beta is of lower intelligence compared to average, with Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 23.
Price:Speed:Latency:Context Window:Grok Beta has a smaller context windows than average, with a context window of 130k tokens.
Highlights
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; Higher is better
Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)
Speed
Output Tokens per Second; Higher is better
Price
USD per 1M Tokens; Lower is better
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Grok Beta Model Details
Comparisons to Grok Beta
Grok Beta
gpt-oss-120B (high)
o3
GPT-4.1
GPT-5 (high)
GPT-5 (minimal)
gpt-oss-20B (high)
Llama 4 Maverick
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude 4 Sonnet
Claude 4.1 Opus
Mistral Medium 3.1
DeepSeek V3.1
DeepSeek V3.1
DeepSeek R1 0528
Grok 4
Grok Code Fast 1
Solar Pro 2
Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5
Kimi K2 0905
EXAONE 4.0 32B
GLM-4.5
Qwen3 235B 2507
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