Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4.1 Fast supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 4.1 Fast, released by xAI in November 2025, is a fast-response variant from the Grok 4 family featuring a 2M token context window designed for high-throughput applications. It omits thinking tokens for immediate responses, reducing latency while maintaining strong output quality. Grok 4.1 Fast targets production APIs, real-time assistants, and cost-sensitive applications requiring long-context understanding at high volume.
NVIDIA
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 is a 253-billion-parameter model from NVIDIA, derived from Meta's Llama 3.1 405B using neural architecture search (NAS) compression combined with NVIDIA's Nemotron post-training pipeline, which recovers and exceeds the base model's capability after structural compression. Released in April 2025, it supports toggling between a standard instruction mode and an extended reasoning mode via system prompt, allowing the same model to handle both rapid responses and deliberate chain-of-thought tasks. It is the flagship of the Nemotron family, available open-weight on HuggingFace and through NVIDIA NIM for enterprise inference.
7 months newer

Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
NVIDIA
2025-04-07

Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
2025-11-17
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
Grok 4.1 Fast
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
Grok 4.1 Fast
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B