Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4 Fast leads with 45.7% higher average benchmark score. Grok 4 Fast offers 1.8M more tokens in context window than Nova Micro. Nova Micro is $0.53 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 4 Fast supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Grok 4 Fast is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
xAI
Grok 4 Fast is a multimodal language model developed by xAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.0% across 7 benchmarks. It excels particularly in SimpleQA (95.0%), HMMT 2025 (93.3%), AIME 2025 (92.0%). With a 2.0M token context window, it can handle extensive documents and complex multi-turn conversations. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
Amazon
Amazon Nova Micro was created as an ultra-compact multimodal model, designed for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Built to bring text and image understanding to edge devices and latency-sensitive applications, it extends Amazon's AI capabilities to minimal footprint scenarios.
9 months newer

Nova Micro
Amazon
2024-11-20

Grok 4 Fast
xAI
2025-08-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Grok 4 Fast

Nova Micro
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Grok 4 Fast

Nova Micro
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok 4 Fast
xAI

Nova Micro

Grok 4 Fast

Nova Micro

Grok 4 Fast

Nova Micro
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