xAI · Released Mar 31, 2026

Grok 4.20

Grok 4.20 is a reasoning model from SpaceXAI with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities. It combines the lowest hallucination rate on the market with strict prompt adherance, delivering...

ReasoningVision
  • Top 35%Terminal-Bench
  • Top 42%ARC-AGI-2
  • Top 50%ARC-AGI-1
Released
Mar 31 2026
Context window
2M 1.8M out
Input / 1M tokens
$1.25
Output / 1M tokens
$2.50

Where to run it

Providers

Cheapest: xAI at $1.25 / $2.50 per 1M input / output tokens — 50% less than the priciest option.

ProviderInputOutputCache readContextMax outputUptimevs. best
xAI $1.25 $2.50 $0.202M1.8M100%24h Cheapest
xAIzdr $1.25 $2.50 $0.202M1.8M99.7%24h Cheapest
xAIzdr/priority $2.50 $5.00 $0.402M1.8M100%24h +100%
xAIpriority $2.50 $5.00 $0.402M1.8M100%24h +100%

Value

Price vs. performance

4 models score higher for the same price or lesson Terminal-Bench, e.g. Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
3.4%30.5%57.6%84.7% $0.01$0.10$1.00$10.00$100.00 Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Qwen) — 24.6% · $0.10/1M in GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) — 84.7% · $5.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) — 80.2% · $5.00/1M in MiniMax M2.7 (MiniMax) — 45.1% · $0.30/1M in Qwen3.5-9B (Qwen) — 9.2% · $0.10/1M in GPT-5.4 (OpenAI) — 81.8% · $2.50/1M in GPT-5.3-Codex (OpenAI) — 78.4% · $1.75/1M in Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google) — 80.2% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) — 53.4% · $3.00/1M in MiniMax M2.5 (MiniMax) — 42.7% · $0.27/1M in GLM 5 (Z.ai) — 52.4% · $0.60/1M in Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) — 79.8% · $5.00/1M in Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot AI) — 43.2% · $0.50/1M in GPT-5.2-Codex (OpenAI) — 66.5% · $1.75/1M in MiniMax M2.1 (MiniMax) — 36.6% · $0.30/1M in GLM 4.7 (Z.ai) — 33.4% · $0.54/1M in Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Google) — 64.3% · $0.50/1M in GPT-5.2 (OpenAI) — 64.9% · $1.75/1M in GPT-5.1-Codex-Max (OpenAI) — 60.5% · $1.25/1M in DeepSeek V3.2 (DeepSeek) — 39.6% · $0.28/1M in Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic) — 63.1% · $5.00/1M in GPT-5.1 (OpenAI) — 47.6% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5.1-Codex (OpenAI) — 57.8% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini (OpenAI) — 61.6% · $0.25/1M in Kimi K2 Thinking (Moonshot AI) — 35.7% · $0.60/1M in MiniMax M2 (MiniMax) — 30.0% · $0.26/1M in Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) — 35.5% · $1.00/1M in GLM 4.6 (Z.ai) — 24.5% · $0.55/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic) — 46.5% · $3.00/1M in DeepSeek V3.2 Exp (DeepSeek) — 39.6% · $0.27/1M in GPT-5 (OpenAI) — 49.6% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5 Mini (OpenAI) — 34.8% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5 Nano (OpenAI) — 21.8% · $0.05/1M in gpt-oss-120b (OpenAI) — 18.7% · $0.15/1M in gpt-oss-20b (OpenAI) — 3.4% · $0.018/1M in Claude Opus 4.1 (Anthropic) — 38.0% · $15.00/1M in Gemini 2.5 Flash (Google) — 17.1% · $0.30/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) — 32.6% · $1.25/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 (Google) — 32.6% · $1.25/1M in Grok 4.20 (xAI) — 57.3% · $1.25/1M in Grok 4.20

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Benchmarks

7 benchmark scores

BenchmarkScoreRankLeader
Terminal-BenchSoftware engineering · Tasks completed with the programs in a real terminal (best agent) 57.3% #14of 40 GPT-5.584.7%
Vending-Bench 2Agents & computer use · Run a simulated vending business for a year (final balance) $4,663 #32of 61 GPT-6 Astra$15,515
WebDev ArenaDesign & visual · People vote on which model builds the better website (Elo) 1374 #70of 88 Claude Opus 5.51820
Blueprint-Bench 2Design & visual · Turn apartment photos into 2D floor plans 0.0% #29of 32 Gemini 4 Argon54.4%
ARC-AGI-2Reasoning & knowledge · Few-shot abstract reasoning on grid puzzles 65.1% #26of 63 GPT-6 Astra95.0%
ARC-AGI-1Reasoning & knowledge · Pattern induction from input–output examples 89.5% #31of 63 Gemini 4 Argon98.5%
LMCAReasoning & knowledge · Judge the quality of conceptual arguments like experts 38.7% #54of 96 Claude Sonnet 5.568.3%

Specs

Details

Model ID
x-ai/grok-4.20
Developer
xAI
Release date
Mar 31, 2026 ·
Context window
2,000,000 tokens
Max output
1,800,000 tokens
API price
$1.25 / $2.50 per 1M input / output tokens
Providers
1
Input types
text, image, file
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
No
Free tier
No

Release date, prices and providers from OpenRouter's catalog; buying directly from a provider can cost a little differently. Uptime is the share of OpenRouter requests each provider served over the last day. Benchmark scores are the best result per benchmark from Epoch AI, licensed CC BY 4.0. Rank counts every model tracked here with a score.