The Model Index
Models/xAI

Grok 4.20

xAIReleased 17 Feb 2026ClosedFlagship
158147–170Index score#42 of 229 models
4/ 8Core tests taken4 of 6 areas · plus 11 anchor tests
−11Versus the frontier at releasebest then: GPT-5.3-CodexReplaced by Grok 4.5
$1.25/ $2.5Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
2MContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

Gemini 3 Pro reached this score 3 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
89%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
45%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
57%
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
65%
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

The Model Indexindependent tests, our method#42of 219 · 158
Epoch Capabilities Indexoverall capability from many benchmarks#41of 239 · 152.0

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Replaced by Grok 4.5; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

API providers 1 · per million tokens, in / out

xxAI$2.5 / $5.0cheapest

Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

Facts and sources

Released17 Feb 2026
Announcementdocs.x.ai ↗
Release entryGrok 4.20 (beta; GA/API 03-10)
Scored asGrok 4.20
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–
Hugging Faceclosed weights

xAI releasesaround this one