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Grok 3 vs GPT-4o

Side-by-side intelligence, speed, price, benchmarks, strengths and weaknesses.

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Grok 3

ProprietaryFeb 2025

Real-time data via X — competitive on reasoning, 1M context.

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GPT-4o

ProprietaryMay 2024

OpenAI’s vision-and-voice flagship from 2024 — still a great default.

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Head to head

Spec
Grok 3
GPT-4o
Intelligence index↑ better
Winner74
72
Speed↑ better
75 tok/s
Winner110 tok/s
Time to first token↓ better
0.6 s
Winner0.4 s
Context window↑ better
Winner1M
128k
Max output↑ better
16k
Winner16k
Input price↓ better
$3.00 / 1M tokens
Winner$2.50 / 1M tokens
Output price↓ better
$15.00 / 1M tokens
Winner$10.00 / 1M tokens
Blended price↓ better
$6.00 / 1M tokens
Winner$4.38 / 1M tokens
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input modalities
text, image
text, image, audio
Output modalities
text
text, audio

Benchmark showdown

MMLU
Grok 3
88.0
GPT-4o
88.7
MMLU Pro
Grok 3
76.0
GPT-4o
73.3
GPQA
Grok 3
62.0
GPT-4o
53.1
MATH
Grok 3
88.5
GPT-4o
76.6
HumanEval
Grok 3
90.0
GPT-4o
90.2

Strengths, weaknesses and best-for

Grok 3
Strengths
  • Live X data
  • 1M context
  • Strong reasoning mode
Weaknesses
  • Smaller ecosystem
  • Less tool-use tooling
Best for
  • Real-time research
  • Social-aware apps
GPT-4o
Strengths
  • Strong multimodal
  • Voice-native
  • Mature ecosystem
Weaknesses
  • Weaker than GPT-5.5 on reasoning
  • Smaller context vs newer models
Best for
  • General-purpose chat
  • Voice apps
  • Vision tasks

Quick verdict

  • Pick Grok 3 if you want it smarter and longer context.
  • Pick GPT-4o if you want it faster and cheaper.

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