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GPT-6 AstravsGrok 4.1 Fast Reasoning

GPT-6 Astra leads 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning is 85.7x cheaper per token. Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning has the larger context window (2M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
5 – 0
GPT-6 Astra leads
Cheaper per token
Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
85.7x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
2M tokens
Providers
2 providers
OpenAI · xAI
GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI · released 2026-09-03
textvision
Context
1.1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$10 ↗
Output /1M
$50 ↗
Cached /1M
$1
Scores
39 · 9 core
Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
xAI · released 2025-11-19
text
Context
2M
Max out
—
Input /1M
$0.2 ↗
Output /1M
$0.5 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.05
Scores
7 · 3 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGPT-6 AstraGrok 4.1 Fast ReasoningΔEdge
Reported by both · 5
LMArena Elo1477.1 ↗1430.3 ↗+46.8GPT-6 Astra
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1284.3 ↗1196.3 ↗+88GPT-6 Astra
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1787.7 ↗1241.3 ↗+546.4GPT-6 Astra
SAGE (Vals AI)46.4% ↗31.3% ↗+15.1 ptGPT-6 Astra
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)15514.7 ↗1106.63 ↗+14408.1GPT-6 Astra
Only GPT-6 Astra reports · 28
GPQA Diamond96% ↗not reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)64.7% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench 1.0.641.4% ↗not reported——
BALROG (BALROG)68.3% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)72% ↗epoch runnot reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)74.1% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)76.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)97.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)93.7% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)65.5% ↗not reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)80% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)77.5% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)57.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)80.4% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)83% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)75.6% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)89.4% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)96.8% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)92.7% ↗not reported——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.1227 ↗not reported——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)46.7% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)84% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)100% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)86.5% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified75.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)59.6% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench Science 0.164.6% ↗not reported——
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)93.6% ↗not reported——
Only Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning reports · 2
FRAMES (Agent Tools API)not reported87.6% ↗——
Research-Eval Reka (Agent Tools API)not reported63.9% ↗——
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-6 Astra minus Grok 4.1 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

SpecGPT-6 AstraGrok 4.1 Fast ReasoningEdge
Context window1.1M tokens2M tokensGrok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Max output128K tokens——
Input price / 1M$10 ↗$0.2 ↗Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Output price / 1M$50 ↗$0.5 ↗Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Cached input / 1M$1 ↗$0.05 ↗Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$60$0.7Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Modalitiestext · visiontextGPT-6 Astra
Released2026-09-032025-11-19—
Cited benchmark scores397—
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