The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
grok-4-0709 vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano ·xAI vs OpenAI

grok-4-0709 vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — head-to-head comparison

grok-4-0709 profile OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano profile All comparisons
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
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Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
—
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
—
tokens
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — OpenAI
Quality
#37 of 61
57based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#28 of 316
120.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#56 of 340
$0.14
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.05 · Out $0.40
Cache hit price
#13 of 206
$0.005
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#105 of 345
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, grok-4-0709 scores 67 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano scores 57 — a 10-point lead for grok-4-0709. They share 3 published evaluations, with grok-4-0709 ahead on 3 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano only, at $0.14 per 1M tokens blended.

grok-4-0709 is proprietary; OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano 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
Metricgrok-4-0709OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 67 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 57 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M — $0.14
Output tok/s — 121
Context window — 400k
Providers 0 2
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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.

Metricgrok-4-0709OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 67 57
Mathematics Index 84 89
Science Index 91 69
Agentic Index 27 21
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = grok-4-0709 · marker = OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond87 / 69
MATH / AIME84 / 81
Terminal-Bench27 / 22

Right-hand figures read grok-4-0709 / OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano. grok-4-0709 leads on 3 of 3, OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano 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.

Metricgrok-4-0709OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Text Arena 1,410 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 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.

Metricgrok-4-0709OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Input $/1M — $0.05
Output $/1M — $0.40
Blended $/1M — $0.14
Cache read $/1M — $0.005
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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.

Metricgrok-4-0709OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Context window — 400k
Max output tokens — 128k
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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.

Metricgrok-4-0709OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Output tokens/s — 121
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 grok-4-0709 blendedgrok-4-0709 tok/s OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano blendedOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano tok/s
OpenAI · first party — — $0.07 225
Azure · first party — — $0.14 69

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

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