OpenAI o4-mini vs xAI Grok‑1 — side-by-side specs.
OpenAI o4-mini | xAI Grok‑1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | OpenAI | xAI |
| Release date | Apr 16 2025 | Nov 3 2023 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Grok‑1 shipped 530 days before o4-mini | |
o4-mini and Grok‑1 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Grok‑1 shipped 530 days before o4-mini, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Grok‑1 is an open-source / open-weight model; o4-mini 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.