Meta LLaMA 3.1 vs xAI Grok 4.1 — side-by-side specs.
Meta LLaMA 3.1 | xAI Grok 4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Meta | xAI |
| Release date | Jul 23 2024 | Nov 17 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | LLaMA 3.1 shipped 482 days before Grok 4.1 | |
LLaMA 3.1 and Grok 4.1 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. LLaMA 3.1 shipped 482 days before Grok 4.1, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
LLaMA 3.1 is an open-source / open-weight model; Grok 4.1 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.