GPT-5 vs Grok 4

1. High reasoning capability

• Designed for intelligent reasoning across complex domains.
• Supports reasoning tokens and adjustable reasoning effort.

2. Strong coding and agentic performance

• Optimized for multi-step coding tasks, tool-use chains, and agent workflows.
• Handles complex logic, planning, and structured problem solving reliably.

3. Multimodal input

• Accepts text + image as input.
• Produces text outputs with strong instruction following.

4. Extensive tool support

• Works with Web Search, File Search, Image Generation (as a tool), Code Interpreter, MCP, and more.
• Integrated across Chat Completions, Responses API, Realtime, Assistants, Batch, Embeddings, etc.

1. Flagship-level reasoning and math performance

• Designed for world-class reasoning depth, precision, and multi-step logical chains.
• Excels at STEM, mathematics, symbolic operations, proofs, and analytical workloads.

2. Powerful multimodal understanding

• Supports text, images, and other modalities.
• Handles cross-modal reasoning tasks requiring context synthesis.

3. Extreme capability across diverse tasks

• Positioned as a top-tier 'jack of all trades' model.
• Strong in natural language, coding, knowledge retrieval, and structured generation.

4. Large 256K context window

• Enables analysis of long documents, entire codebases, multi-document packs, and extensive agent sessions.
• Supports workloads that require persistent reasoning across large inputs.

5. Advanced developer tooling support

• Function calling for tool-augmented workflows.
• Structured outputs for predictable, schema-controlled generation.
• Integrates smoothly with agents and complex automation pipelines.

6. Efficient caching for cost reduction

• Cached input tokens discounted to $0.75 / 1M tokens.
• Encourages RAG, retrieval pipelines, and multi-step conversational workflows.

7. Production-ready performance

• Stable rate limits: 480 requests per minute.
• High token throughput: 2,000,000 tokens per minute.
• Available across multiple xAI regional clusters.

8. Optional Live Search augmentation

• Add-on: $25 per 1K sources.
• Enhances factual accuracy and real-time information retrieval.