Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning)

Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning)

xAI · Released Mar 10, 2026 Professional
Intelligence #10 / 565
82.0 Our Score
Speed #45 / 262
185.4 tokens / sec
Input #473 / 566
$2.00 per 1M tokens
Output #459 / 566
$6.00 per 1M tokens
Context
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Analysis Summary

Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning) sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #10 of 565 published models on overall intelligence. At $2.00 input and $6.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market.

Editorial notes

Grok 4.20 0309 Reasoning from xAI delivers near-frontier intelligence and coding scores, exceptional agentic performance, and outstanding instruction following, at a competitive $2/$6 per million token price point.

Assessed May 31, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence7Technical7.1Value6Content8.1
Intelligence 7/10
Technical 7.1/10
Content 8.1/10
Value 6/10

How Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning) compares

Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning) ranks #26 of 371 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #31 of 308 for coding, #15 of 283 for agentic tasks. At $2.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 16% of comparable models.

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

48.5 Intelligence Index
42.2 Coding Index
68.7 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 88.5% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 30% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 44.7% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 40.9% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 96.5% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 82.9% Instruction following
LCR 59% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

ProviderxAI
Release Date March 10, 2026
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $2.00 $0.002000
Output $6.00 $0.006000

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Frequently asked questions about Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning)

How much does Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning) cost?

Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning) costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens.

Is Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning) good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning) ranks #31 of 308 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.

Who created Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4.20 0309 (Reasoning) is developed by xAI and was released on March 10, 2026.