Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5.1 leads with 1.2% higher average benchmark score. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-5 family that delivers incremental improvements in reasoning, instruction following, and multimodal understanding over GPT-5. It features a 400K token context window and targets general-purpose development, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows.
xAI
Grok 4, released by xAI on July 10, 2025, is a large language model featuring first-principles reasoning and comprehensive multimodal support. It features a 260K token context window and demonstrated strong performance on advanced reasoning and coding benchmarks. Grok 4 targets complex multi-step reasoning tasks, scientific analysis, and agentic workflows via the xAI API.
3 months newer

Grok 4
xAI
2025-07-10

GPT-5.1
OpenAI
2025-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
GPT-5.1
Grok 4
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
GPT-5.1
Grok 4
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5.1
Grok 4
xAI
GPT-5.1
Grok 4
GPT-5.1
Grok 4