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Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking) 1436.4 Grok 4.1 (Thinking) · 95% interval 1433.3–1439.6 · 66,470 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 (Thinking)

1,451.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,442.60 – 1,459.98

5060 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: chinese
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,445.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.59 – 1,450.55

15395 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: coding
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,403.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,396.87 – 1,409.90

10134 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: creative_writing
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,442.30 rating

Confidence interval: 1,437.95 – 1,446.64

28189 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: english
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,430.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,426.56 – 1,435.06

49034 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,417.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.65 – 1,426.03

4928 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: expert
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,448.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,432.78 – 1,463.78

1714 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: french
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,439.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.32 – 1,457.23

1143 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: german
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,432.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,428.96 – 1,436.85

38504 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,435.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.96 – 1,440.56

16625 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,415.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.88 – 1,421.67

12789 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,406.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,401.01 – 1,412.95

12765 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,437.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.01 – 1,446.55

4925 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,436.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,430.30 – 1,442.68

11144 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,414.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.91 – 1,425.13

3251 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,450.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,440.84 – 1,459.62

4477 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,450.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,445.81 – 1,455.15

23755 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,404.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.66 – 1,409.65

15294 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,394.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,389.77 – 1,399.82

19312 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: instruction_following
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,375.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,351.17 – 1,399.02

639 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: japanese
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,394.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,375.75 – 1,412.93

1124 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: korean
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,406.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,401.67 – 1,411.58

21122 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: longer_query
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,421.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,412.27 – 1,431.48

3947 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: math
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,430.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,424.03 – 1,436.28

12242 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: multi_turn
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,425.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.23 – 1,429.08

38280 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: non_english
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,436.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,433.27 – 1,439.55

66470 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: overall
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,454.92 rating

Confidence interval: 1,441.21 – 1,468.63

1940 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: polish
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,433.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,426.77 – 1,440.96

7944 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: russian
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

1,438.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,424.17 – 1,452.41

1955 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: spanish
Evaluated configuration: Grok 4.1 (Thinking)
Evaluation type: human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

Grok 4.1 (Thinking)

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license: Proprietary