Google Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B vs xAI Grok 4 — side-by-side specs.
Google Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B | xAI Grok 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | xAI | |
| Release date | Oct 3 2024 | Jul 9 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B shipped 279 days before Grok 4 | |
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B and Grok 4 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B shipped 279 days before Grok 4, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.