Gemini vs Grok

Right now Gemini's flagship model is Gemini 4 Argon and Grok's is Grok 4.6.

We pick flagships the same way as our subscription guide: the model with the highest overall score among those you can use on the plans. It changes when a new model comes out.

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Gemini 4 Argon is Google's model for software development, long-document analysis and multi-step work involving text and visual material. Google says it expands the output available over earlier Gemini models, giving extended tasks more room for deliberation and finished deliverables. The company highlights code changes, specialist analysis and work across tools, alongside defenses against malicious instructions and actions outside the assigned scope. The combination connects extended deliberation with tool-driven changes and deliverable creation. Consult the model detail page's detailed specifications and evaluation analysis for context and output limits, reasoning settings, tool-call support, specialist document analysis and code repair.

Author
GoogleGoogle
Release Date
2026-09-30
Knowledge Cutoff
—
License
Proprietary
I/O Format
Context Length
✦1M / 1M
API I/O (1M)
$2 / $10
How to Use
Gemini AI Plus or above
Overall Eval
Output Speed
35 tok/s
Arena Text
✦1523
Intelligence Index
✦50.4
Coding Index
—
Math Index
—
LiveBench
—
ForecastBench
—
Reasoning Eval
GPQA Diamond
—
HLE
✦57.1%
MMLU-Pro
—
AIME 2025
—
MATH-500
—
LB Reasoning
—
LB Math
—
LB Data Analysis
—
Coding Eval
LiveCodeBench
—
LB Coding
—
LB Agentic
—
TAU2
—
TerminalBench
—
SciCode
✦61.8%
Language Eval
IFBench
—
AA-LCR
0.8
Hallucination (HHEM)
12.1%
Factual Consistency (HHEM)
87.9%
LB Language
—
LB Instruction Following
—

Grok 4.6 is an xAI-family model for long development and knowledge workflows, accepting text and images and producing text. Its developer describes improvements over the preceding model in sustained agent work, interactive artifacts and checking intermediate results. It can help organize requirements and draft code or documents, while application execution and saved files depend on the development environment and connected tools. Current AIB comparisons put automation in the top tier and document handling and coding in the middle of the pack, so automation strength should not imply general accuracy guarantees. Check reasoning settings and long-input pricing, then inspect retained requirements, intermediate deliverables and tests on representative tasks to assess quality, latency and cost.

Author
SpaceXSISpaceXSI
Release Date
2026-08-12
Knowledge Cutoff
2026-02-01
License
Proprietary
I/O Format
Context Length
500K / 450K
API I/O (1M)
✦$2 / $6
How to Use
Grok Free or above / API Access
Overall Eval
Output Speed
✦60 tok/s
Arena Text
1457
Intelligence Index
31.0
Coding Index
76.8
Math Index
—
LiveBench
78.0
ForecastBench
—
Reasoning Eval
GPQA Diamond
94.9%
HLE
44.1%
MMLU-Pro
—
AIME 2025
—
MATH-500
—
LB Reasoning
90.5
LB Math
92.6
LB Data Analysis
73.9
Coding Eval
LiveCodeBench
—
LB Coding
76.8
LB Agentic
57.0
TAU2
—
TerminalBench
—
SciCode
56.5%
Language Eval
IFBench
—
AA-LCR
✦0.8
Hallucination (HHEM)
—
Factual Consistency (HHEM)
—
LB Language
83.7
LB Instruction Following
71.9

Top 10 models in the overall ranking

Updated 2026-11-08
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RankModelOverallAutomationDocs & officeCodingCost (per 1M tokens)Output speed
🥇Gemini 4 CarbonGoogle—92.1 tok/s
🥈Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic$16.0078.5 tok/s
🥉Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic$40.0065.0 tok/s
4Claude Fable 5Anthropic$40.0056.0 tok/s
5Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle$8.0035.0 tok/s
6GPT-6 AstraOpenAI$40.0036.5 tok/s
7GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI—$8.0041.5 tok/s
8Muse WonderMeta—$16.0092.0 tok/s
9Muse Spark 1.3Meta$3.5096.0 tok/s
10Claude Opus 5Anthropic$20.0065.0 tok/s

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