o3 vs Grok 4

1. Advanced reasoning capability

• Designed for multi-step thinking across text, code, and visual inputs.
• Excels at math, science, logic puzzles, and complex analytical workflows.

2. Strong performance across domains

• Highly capable in technical writing, data analysis, and structured problem-solving.
• Useful for research, engineering tasks, and intricate instruction-following.

3. Visual reasoning support

• Accepts image inputs, enabling tasks such as diagram analysis, chart interpretation, and visual logic assessments.

4. High output capacity

• Up to 100,000 output tokens, supporting long-form content, technical breakdowns, and multi-part solutions.

5. Excellent instruction following

• Produces detailed, step-by-step responses for tasks requiring precision and clarity.
• Ideal for educational explanations, system design reasoning, and code walkthroughs.

6. Large 200K context window

• Handles long documents, multi-file reasoning, or extended conversations with minimal loss of context.

7. Broad API support

• Works with Chat Completions, Responses, Realtime, Assistants, Batch, Embeddings, Image Generation, and more.
• Supports streaming and function calling for advanced workflows.

8. Positioned as a legacy reasoning model

• Remains extremely capable but formally succeeded by GPT-5, which offers stronger reasoning and performance.

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.