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Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

AI model Released

Context window
2,000,000 tokens
Maximum output
30,000 tokens
Open weights
No

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning) 1407.9 Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning) · 95% interval 1404.7–1411.1 · 57,500 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,440.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,431.73 – 1,449.92

4399 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,411.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,405.79 – 1,417.02

13893 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,394.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.54 – 1,400.93

8994 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,419.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,415.45 – 1,424.44

24358 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,391.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.11 – 1,395.89

41559 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,397.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.81 – 1,407.15

4444 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,415.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.40 – 1,432.36

1429 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,403.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,383.59 – 1,423.17

930 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,407.32 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.28 – 1,411.37

33652 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,414.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.75 – 1,419.81

14589 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,384.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,377.92 – 1,390.15

11039 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,381.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,374.99 – 1,387.17

11149 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,402.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.96 – 1,411.62

4208 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,420.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.58 – 1,426.53

9481 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,403.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.44 – 1,414.68

2954 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,412.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.34 – 1,421.76

3864 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,417.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,412.62 – 1,422.21

20616 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,387.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.56 – 1,392.87

13402 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,376.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,370.95 – 1,381.23

17255 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,349.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,320.65 – 1,377.70

445 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,360.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,340.38 – 1,380.59

886 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,389.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.69 – 1,394.92

18596 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,407.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,397.88 – 1,417.80

3609 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,389.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,382.65 – 1,395.47

10288 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,391.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.34 – 1,395.32

33138 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,407.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,404.74 – 1,411.11

57500 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,399.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.41 – 1,415.24

1445 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,386.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,379.50 – 1,393.97

7086 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,412.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,397.37 – 1,427.68

1641 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,441.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,431.89 – 1,450.10

4395 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,411.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,405.73 – 1,416.95

13925 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,394.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.47 – 1,400.86

9001 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,419.92 rating

Confidence interval: 1,415.42 – 1,424.42

24370 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,391.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.21 – 1,395.99

41600 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,398.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.90 – 1,407.25

4456 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,415.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.90 – 1,431.91

1434 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,403.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,383.77 – 1,423.45

930 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,407.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.31 – 1,411.40

33678 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,414.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.58 – 1,419.65

14590 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,384.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,378.27 – 1,390.51

11039 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,381.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,375.09 – 1,387.26

11171 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,402.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.05 – 1,411.72

4211 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,420.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.94 – 1,426.90

9473 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,403.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.22 – 1,414.48

2955 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,412.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.59 – 1,422.03

3865 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,417.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,412.58 – 1,422.17

20649 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,387.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.49 – 1,392.81

13401 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,376.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,370.91 – 1,381.20

17269 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,348.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,320.47 – 1,377.47

446 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,361.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,341.10 – 1,381.47

885 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,390.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.93 – 1,395.16

18626 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,408.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.18 – 1,418.11

3609 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,389.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,382.62 – 1,395.45

10284 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,391.47 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.48 – 1,395.46

33167 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,408.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,404.82 – 1,411.18

57541 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,400.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.64 – 1,415.48

1444 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,387.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,379.96 – 1,394.44

7085 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

1,413.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,397.89 – 1,428.26

1634 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

Closed weights. No supported local deployment or GPU requirement is published.

API cost

USD / month

Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

Capabilities

Context window
2,000,000 tokens
Maximum output
30,000 tokens
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
No
Model license
Proprietary

Input modalities

  • text
  • image

Output modalities

  • text