Moonshot AI Kimi Linear vs xAI Grok 4 — side-by-side specs.
Moonshot AI Kimi Linear | xAI Grok 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Moonshot AI | xAI |
| Release date | Oct 2025 | Jul 9 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 48B | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Grok 4 shipped 84 days before Kimi Linear | |
Kimi Linear and Grok 4 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Grok 4 shipped 84 days before Kimi Linear, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi Linear is an open-source / open-weight model; Grok 4 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.