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Released March 10, 2026Cutoff September 2025

Grok 4.20

Grok 4.20 by xAI delivers fast responses, agentic tool calling, strict prompt adherence, and a 2M token context window for long documents and conversations.

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Model Overview

Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits

Grok 4.20 – High-Performance Agentic Tool-Calling Model

Grok 4.20 is xAI's high-performance model positioned around agentic tool calling combined with a documented emphasis on minimizing hallucinations and strict prompt adherence. It is built to deliver consistently precise, truthful responses at speed.

Context Strategy

The 2M token context window is the largest officially documented for any Grok model, enabling ingestion of long documents or extended conversation histories in a single request without chunking.

Why It Exists

Officially positioned as a model that pairs throughput and context depth with agentic tool use - suited for workflows where the model must call external tools rapidly while maintaining output accuracy.

Benchmark Performance

Independent evaluations · Artificial Analysis

25.7%
Intelligence

Accuracy & Capability Details

GPQA - Graduate Science91.1%
Humanity's Last Exam34.5%
SciCode - Scientific Coding45.6%
Instruction Following81.2%
Long Context Reasoning69.0%
τ²-Bench - Agentic Tasks93.0%
TerminalBench - System Control37.9%

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Model Details
General Info
ProviderxAIAnthropicAnthropic
Release DateMarch 10, 2026September 22, 2026September 28, 2026
Knowledge CutoffSep 2025-Jun 2026
Context & Limits
Context Window1M1M1M
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Input Pricing
$1.25
Best Input Pricing
$4$2
Output Pricing
$2.50
Best Output Pricing
$20$10
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Benchmarks (0-100)
Intelligence Index25.7
57.6
Best Intelligence Index
56.0
Coding Index---
Agentic Index---
Grok 4.20
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Humanity's Last Exam

Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.

35%
Grok 4.20
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 35%
Grok 4.20
61%
Claude Opus 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 61%
Claude Opus 5.5
55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Long Context Reasoning

Logical reasoning over long context windows.

69%
Grok 4.20
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 69%
Grok 4.20
85%
Claude Opus 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 85%
Claude Opus 5.5
83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

SciCode Benchmark

Scientific coding and mathematical modeling.

46%
Grok 4.20
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 46%
Grok 4.20
67%
Claude Opus 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 67%
Claude Opus 5.5
61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.

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