GPT-4.5 vs Grok 4

GPT-4.5 (OpenAI) and Grok 4 (xAI) are both frontier AI models. GPT-4.5 was published in February 2025 and Grok 4 in July 2025.

Grok 4 was trained on 5 x 10^26 FLOP, about 1.3x the compute of GPT-4.5 at 3.8 x 10^26 FLOP. Training compute is the closest available proxy for how much was invested in a model, though it says nothing on its own about how well that compute was spent.

Grok 4 wins the single benchmark both were scored on. Benchmark counts are a crude scoreboard — the evaluations differ wildly in what they measure and in how saturated they are — so the per-benchmark table below matters more than the tally.