xAI: Grok 4 Fast

xAI: Grok 4 Fast

x-ai · Released Sep 19, 2025 Specialist
Intelligence #61 / 525
69.5 Our Score
Speed #26 / 244
207.6 tokens / sec
Input #247 / 525
$0.200 per 1M tokens
Output #231 / 525
$0.500 per 1M tokens
Context #1 / 525
2M tokens

Analysis Summary

xAI: Grok 4 Fast sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #61 of 525 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.200 input and $0.500 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers an exceptionally large context window suited to long-document workflows and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.

Editorial notes

Grok 4 Fast from xAI combines a 35.1 intelligence index with vision, tool use, a 2M context, and strong math (89.7) and livecodebench (0.832) scores at $0.20 input, offering broad capability at competitive pricing.

Assessed April 26, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence6.5Technical5.5Value8.3Content6.5
Intelligence 6.5/10
Technical 5.5/10
Content 6.5/10
Value 8.3/10

Grok 4 Fast is xAI's latest multimodal model with SOTA cost-efficiency and a 2M token context window. It comes in two flavors: non-reasoning and reasoning. Read more about the model..

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

23.1 Intelligence Index
19 Coding Index
37.9 Agentic Index
41.3 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 60.6% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 5% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 73% Multi-task language understanding
AIME 2025 41.3% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 32.9% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 40.1% Live coding evaluation
TerminalBench Hard 12.1% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 63.7% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 37.7% Instruction following
LCR 20% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID x-ai/grok-4-fast
Providerx-ai
Release Date September 19, 2025
Context Length2,000,000 tokens
Max Completion30,000 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.20 $0.000200
Output $0.50 $0.000500

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

99.7%
Avg Uptime
3,493ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
91 tok/s
Best Throughput
1/1
Active Endpoints
Available via: xAI

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