grok-4 vs gpt-4.1
Side-by-side comparison of grok-4 and gpt-4.1 — benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. grok-4 outperforms gpt-4.1 on 8 of 8 shared benchmarks.
xAI Corp.
grok-4
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
256K
Model ID
xai/grok-4
gpt-4.1
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$8.00
Context
1.0M
Model ID
openai/gpt-4.1
Benchmark comparison
MMLU Proknowledge
grok-487.5%
gpt-4.185.3%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
grok-487.5%
gpt-4.174.1%
HumanEvalcoding
grok-493.8%
gpt-4.191.8%
SWE-Bench Verifiedcoding
grok-472.5%
gpt-4.168.1%
MATHmath
grok-494.1%
gpt-4.189.2%
AIME 2024math
grok-490.1%
gpt-4.172.4%
MMMUmultimodal
grok-477.9%
gpt-4.174.8%
LiveBenchreasoning
grok-475.4%
gpt-4.166.7%
τ-bench Retailagentic
grok-4—
gpt-4.165.1%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| grok-4 | gpt-4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $3.00 | $2.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $15.00 | $8.00 |
| Context window | 256K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Max output | — | 33K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | Yes | — |
| Provider | xAI Corp. | OpenAI Inc. |
Questions people ask
Is grok-4 better than gpt-4.1?
grok-4 outperforms gpt-4.1 on 8 of 8 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics — grok-4 and gpt-4.1 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper — grok-4 or gpt-4.1?
gpt-4.1 is cheaper. grok-4 costs $3.00/$15.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while gpt-4.1 costs $2.00/$8.00.
Can I use grok-4 and gpt-4.1 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "xai/grok-4" or "openai/gpt-4.1" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
grok-4 supports up to 256K tokens of context. gpt-4.1 supports up to 1.0M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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