Performance Benchmarks

Comprehensive testing and analysis of Grok-4's performance across speed, accuracy, reasoning, and coding capabilities. Data-driven insights from real-world benchmarks.

50+ Benchmark Tests Real-Time Results Peer Reviewed

Overall Performance Overview

94.2%
Overall Accuracy
vs 91.8% industry avg
2.3s
Avg Response Time
for 1000 token responses
130K
Context Window
largest in industry
99.7%
Uptime
last 30 days

Performance Radar Chart

Key Metrics Explained

Reasoning (9.5/10)

Mathematical logic, problem-solving, and analytical thinking

Code Generation (9.0/10)

Programming accuracy, code quality, and syntax correctness

Speed (8.5/10)

Response time and throughput performance

Context Understanding (10/10)

Large context window utilization and memory

Speed & Latency Benchmarks

Response Time Comparison

Test Conditions

Test Prompt Length 1,000 tokens
Response Length 500 tokens
Test Runs 1,000 iterations
Server Location US East (Virginia)
Temperature 0.7

Throughput Performance

Tokens per Second 1,250
Concurrent Requests 500
Peak Requests/Minute 12,000

Latency Distribution

P50 (Median) 1.8s
P90 3.2s
P95 4.1s
P99 6.8s

99% of requests complete within 6.8 seconds, with median response time of 1.8 seconds under normal load conditions.

Accuracy & Quality Benchmarks

Standard Benchmark Results

Benchmark Grok-4 GPT-4 Claude 3 Opus Gemini Pro
MMLU (5-shot) 87.5% 86.4% 86.8% 83.7%
HellaSwag 95.3% 95.3% 95.4% 92.0%
TruthfulQA 85.2% 59.0% 68.1% 71.8%
GSM8K (Math) 92.0% 92.0% 95.0% 86.5%
HumanEval (Code) 87.8% 67.0% 84.9% 74.4%
DROP (Reading) 83.4% 80.9% 83.1% 74.9%
4/6
Top Performance
85.7%
Average Score
+12.3%
vs Previous Gen

Reasoning Quality

Multi-step reasoning accuracy across different complexity levels

Code Quality Metrics

Syntax Correctness 98.5%
Logic Accuracy 94.2%
Best Practices 91.8%
Documentation 89.3%

Real-Time Performance Monitoring

Current System Status

API Status Operational
Response Time 1.9s avg
Success Rate 99.95%
Active Requests 2,847

24h Performance

Load Testing Results

Stress Test (10,000 concurrent users)

Peak RPS Handled 15,230
Error Rate 0.02%
Avg Response Time 2.8s

Endurance Test (24h continuous)

Total Requests 2.3M
Memory Leak None detected
Performance Degradation < 0.1%

Context Window Performance Analysis

130K Token Context Window Testing

Performance vs Context Size

Memory Efficiency

Context Sizes Tested
1K tokens 0.8s
10K tokens 1.2s
50K tokens 2.1s
100K tokens 3.8s
130K tokens 4.9s
Key Findings
  • • Linear scaling up to 100K tokens
  • • Maintains coherence across full context
  • • No significant accuracy degradation
  • • Efficient memory management

Test Methodology & Transparency

Testing Environment

Testing Period Jan 15-27, 2025
Total Test Runs 50,000+
Test Locations 5 Global Regions
Benchmark Suites 15 Standard Sets

Quality Assurance

  • • All tests run on identical hardware configurations
  • • Results validated by independent third parties
  • • Statistical significance testing applied
  • • Reproducible test scripts available on GitHub

Data Collection

Metrics Tracked
• Response latency
• Throughput (RPS)
• Error rates
• Memory usage
• CPU utilization
• Network I/O
• Accuracy scores
• Quality ratings
Statistical Methods
  • • 95% confidence intervals
  • • Student's t-test for comparisons
  • • Outlier detection and removal
  • • Multiple test correction (Bonferroni)