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grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

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

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning 1450.8 grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning · 95% interval 1447.2–1454.5 · 66,436 votes · 2026-10-15

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,480.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,470.74 – 1,490.22

4245 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,458.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,453.08 – 1,464.53

18377 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,431.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,424.88 – 1,438.32

11439 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,457.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,452.38 – 1,462.05

30450 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,449.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.72 – 1,454.24

50710 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,438.76 rating

Confidence interval: 1,430.70 – 1,446.81

6699 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,475.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,461.58 – 1,490.14

2221 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,440.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.54 – 1,459.55

1051 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,451.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,447.15 – 1,455.95

43527 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,454.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,449.22 – 1,460.26

20667 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,431.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,425.60 – 1,438.00

13366 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,426.12 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.94 – 1,432.30

14779 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,453.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.76 – 1,462.52

5326 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,462.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,456.02 – 1,469.27

10873 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,446.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,435.83 – 1,456.70

3640 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,453.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.57 – 1,462.85

4963 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,461.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,456.36 – 1,466.51

26055 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,433.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,427.81 – 1,439.54

16617 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,420.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,415.25 – 1,425.87

22645 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,414.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,390.93 – 1,438.03

706 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,415.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,395.55 – 1,434.72

1062 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,436.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,431.47 – 1,441.73

29108 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,455.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.78 – 1,465.62

3535 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,455.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,449.28 – 1,462.32

12119 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,440.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.19 – 1,445.25

35986 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,450.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,447.17 – 1,454.49

66436 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,451.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,434.63 – 1,468.20

1253 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,457.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,450.18 – 1,465.44

7432 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

1,442.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,428.72 – 1,456.77

2055 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
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