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Grok 4.20

xAI · released Mar 31, 2026

ProprietaryReasoningTool useStructured outputVision

Grok 4.20 is a reasoning model from SpaceXAI with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities. It combines the lowest hallucination rate on the market with strict prompt adherance, delivering...

Specification

Context window
2M
Max output
Knowledge cutoff
Sep 1, 2025
Parameters
Undisclosed
Licence
Proprietary
Serving providers
1
Moderated
No
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

38.0

86th percentile

Coding

Coding Index

Agentic

Agentic Index

Output speed

93 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

427ms

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.26

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    93.0%
  • GPQA Diamond
    91.1%
  • IFBench
    81.2%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    62.3%
  • SciCode
    45.6%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    37.9%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    34.5%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
τ²-bench (Telecom)93.0%
GPQA Diamond91.1%
IFBench81.2%
AA-LCR (long context)62.3%
SciCode45.6%
Terminal-Bench Hard37.9%
Humanity's Last Exam34.5%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
Claude Opus 4.638.8
Grok 4.2038.0
MiMo-V2.538.0
Grok 4.337.9
Ling-3.0-flash37.8
Qwen3.6 27B37.7
GPT-5.137.5
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite37.4

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence86th
Terminal work84th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$1.25
Output / 1M tokens
$2.5
Cached input / 1M
$0.2
Blended 3:1
$1.56

One task, estimated

$0.26

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.