The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs grok-4-0709 ·Google vs xAI

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs grok-4-0709 — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview profile grok-4-0709 profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview — Google
Quality
#2 of 61
96based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#42 of 316
104.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#287 of 340
$4.50
Blended per 1M tokens
In $2.00 · Out $12.00
Cache hit price
#140 of 206
$0.20
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#22 of 345
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
grok-4-0709 — xAI
Quality
#27 of 61
67based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores 96 and grok-4-0709 scores 67 — a 29-point lead for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. They share 3 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview ahead on 3 and grok-4-0709 ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview only, at $4.50 per 1M tokens blended.

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is proprietary; grok-4-0709 is proprietary. 2 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgrok-4-0709
Known Good Index 96 based on 4 of 6 evaluations 67 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $4.50
Output tok/s 104
Context window 1.05M
Providers 2 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgrok-4-0709
Known Good Index 96 67
Mathematics Index 96 84
Science Index 99 91
Reasoning Index 100
Agentic Index 88 27
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview · marker = grok-4-0709 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond94 / 87
MATH / AIME96 / 84
Terminal-Bench80 / 27

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview / grok-4-0709. Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads on 3 of 3, grok-4-0709 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgrok-4-0709
Text Arena 1,479 1,410
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,486 1,410
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgrok-4-0709
Input $/1M $2.00
Output $/1M $12.00
Blended $/1M $4.50
Cache read $/1M $0.200
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgrok-4-0709
Context window 1.05M
Max output tokens 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgrok-4-0709
Output tokens/s 104
Time to first token 2.9s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

2 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview blendedGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview tok/s grok-4-0709 blendedgrok-4-0709 tok/s
Google AI Studio $2.25 163
Google · first party $2.25 99

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →