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GPT-5.6 TerravsGrok 4 Fast Reasoning
GPT-5.6 Terra leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. Grok 4 Fast Reasoning is 20x cheaper per token. Grok 4 Fast Reasoning has the larger context window (2M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 0
GPT-5.6 Terra leads
Cheaper per token
Grok 4 Fast Reasoning
20x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Grok 4 Fast Reasoning
2M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
95.2096% · —
OpenAI · xAI
GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI · released 2026-07-09
textvision
Grok 4 Fast Reasoning
xAI · released 2025-09-19
text
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 6 only GPT-5.6 Terra · 11 only Grok 4 Fast Reasoning| Benchmark | GPT-5.6 Terra | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 92.9% ↗ | 85.7% ↗ | +7.2 pt | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Only GPT-5.6 Terra reports · 6 | ||||
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 69.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 70.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 86% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 99.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 43.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 63.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Grok 4 Fast Reasoning reports · 11 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 92% ↗ | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | not reported | 20% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp | not reported | 44.9% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp (zh) | not reported | 51.2% ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT 2025 (no tools) | not reported | 93.3% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench (Jan-May) | not reported | 80% ↗ | — | — |
| Reka Research Eval | not reported | 66% ↗ | — | — |
| Search Arena Elo | not reported | 1163 ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleQA | not reported | 95% ↗ | — | — |
| X Bench Deepsearch (zh) | not reported | 74% ↗ | — | — |
| X Browse | not reported | 58% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-5.6 Terra minus Grok 4 Fast Reasoning in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | GPT-5.6 Terra | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.1M tokens | 2M tokens | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $0.2 ↗ | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning |
| Output price / 1M | $12 ↗ | $0.5 ↗ | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | $0.05 ↗ | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $14 | $0.7 | Grok 4 Fast Reasoning |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | GPT-5.6 Terra |
| Released | 2026-07-09 | 2025-09-19 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 12 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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