The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
grok-4-0709 vs OpenAI: o1 ·xAI vs OpenAI

grok-4-0709 vs OpenAI: o1 — head-to-head comparison

grok-4-0709 profile OpenAI: o1 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: o1 — OpenAI
Quality
#30 of 61
63based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#264 of 316
24.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#330 of 340
$26.25
Blended per 1M tokens
In $15.00 · Out $60.00
Cache hit price
#206 of 206
$7.50
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#216 of 345
200k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, grok-4-0709 scores 67 and OpenAI: o1 scores 63 — a 4-point lead for grok-4-0709. They share 2 published evaluations, with grok-4-0709 ahead on 2 and OpenAI: o1 ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for OpenAI: o1 only, at $26.25 per 1M tokens blended.

grok-4-0709 is proprietary; OpenAI: o1 is proprietary. 1 tracked host serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 26 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricgrok-4-0709OpenAI: o1
Known Good Index 67 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 63 based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M — $26.25
Output tok/s — 24
Context window — 200k
Providers 0 1
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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: o1
Known Good Index 67 63
Mathematics Index 84 85
Science Index 91 78
Reasoning Index — 62
Agentic Index 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 = grok-4-0709 · marker = OpenAI: o1 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond87 / 77
MATH / AIME84 / 73

Right-hand figures read grok-4-0709 / OpenAI: o1. grok-4-0709 leads on 2 of 2, OpenAI: o1 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: o1
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: o1
Input $/1M — $15.00
Output $/1M — $60.00
Blended $/1M — $26.25
Cache read $/1M — $7.500
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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: o1
Context window — 200k
Max output tokens — 100k
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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: o1
Output tokens/s — 24
Time to first token — 1.4s
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Providers

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

1 host
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider grok-4-0709 blendedgrok-4-0709 tok/s OpenAI: o1 blendedOpenAI: o1 tok/s
OpenAI · first party — — $26.25 —

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 →