Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 4 Heavy was created as a larger, more capable variant of Grok 4, designed to provide maximum reasoning depth and analytical capability. Built for the most demanding applications requiring sophisticated problem-solving, it represents xAI's flagship offering in the fourth generation.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 Vision was developed as a multimodal variant of Phi-3.5, designed to understand and reason about both images and text. Built to extend the Phi family's efficiency into vision-language tasks, it enables compact multimodal AI for practical applications.
10 months newer

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
Microsoft
2024-08-23

Grok-4 Heavy
xAI
2025-07-09
Grok-4 Heavy
2024-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-4 Heavy

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Grok-4 Heavy

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct