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Benchmark suiteUpdated May 19, 2026

Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning.

A model-level benchmark profile for Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning, combining Arena category ranks, suite indexes, commercial price and speed data, SWE-bench status, and lab context.

xAI lab page

Lab

xAI

Proprietary

Coverage

33%

3 of 9 tracked signals

Best Arena rank

#57

Vision Arena

Best suite

#71

Coding / 30

OverviewFull public trackerValuePerformance for the moneyCodingCode and SWE-bench signalsAgentsTool and workflow readinessReasoningKnowledge and reasoning signalsContextDocument and retrieval signalsLabsProvider comparisons

Model profile

Benchmark signal map.

This view treats missing values as coverage gaps, then puts every available score, rank, cost, and speed signal into the same visual hierarchy.

Analyst view

Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning is strongest on coding.

33% coverage

Its best composite result is rank #71 in the coding view, with a 30 coding index. The strongest raw Arena signal is Vision Arena at rank #57 with 10,607 public votes.

Best current lane

Coding

#71 / 30 coding index

Strongest raw signal

Vision

#57, 1192 score

Commercial posture

Not listed

Not listed first token / Not listed

Coverage gaps

Search ArenaDocument ArenaBlended priceLatencyOutput speedSWE-bench

Profile completeness

3 of 9 signals matched

33%

Arena categories

3/5

Vision, Text, Code

Commercial match

Live

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

SWE-bench

Not listed

No confident software benchmark row

Raw identifier

grok-4-1-fast-reasoning

Reasoning

Performance cockpit

Public benchmark scores

Arena rows show score, public rank, confidence interval, vote count, and publish date. Missing rows stay visible as coverage gaps.

Text Arena

Arena category

1,431#66

1428-1435 CI

52,836 votes

May 19, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

WebDev Arena

Arena category

1,234#71

1224-1243 CI

6,910 votes

May 19, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Vision Arena

Arena category

1,192#57

1184-1199 CI

10,607 votes

May 18, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Search Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Document Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

SWE-bench Verified

Software issue resolution

Not listed

No confident SWE-bench row matched to this model.

Coverage gap

Cost and speed

Commercial profile

Price, latency, and throughput are only shown when a confident commercial source row is matched.

Blended price

Not listed

USD / 1M tokens

Input price

Not listed

USD / 1M input tokens

Output price

Not listed

USD / 1M output tokens

Latency

Not listed

Median time to first token

Output speed

Not listed

Median generation speed

Matched source row

Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)

Suite position

Composite ranks by benchmark lens.

These views combine available public signals into purpose-specific indexes. A missing card means the model lacks enough source coverage for that lens.

Value

Quality, price, latency, and output speed

Not listed

Not enough matched source rows for this composite view.

Coding

Code Arena, SWE-bench, and output speed

#7130

coding index

Code Arena rank #711,234
No confident matchNot listed
output speedNot listed

Agents

Search, documents, code, and latency

#11830

agent proxy

Search ArenaNot listed
Docs ArenaNot listed
latencyNot listed

Reasoning

Text, documents, vision, and mode signal

#9532

reasoning proxy

Text Arena rank #661,431
Docs ArenaNot listed
Vision Arena rank #571,192

Long context

Document, search, and text benchmark proxy

#8523

context proxy

Docs ArenaNot listed
Search ArenaNot listed
Text Arena rank #661,431

Lab context

Nearby xAI profiles.

Same-lab models make it easier to see whether this profile is a flagship, value play, specialist, or lower-coverage row.

Full lab

Grok 4.20 Multi Agent Beta 0309

grok-4.20-multi-agent-beta-0309

Proprietary

Best rank

#5

Coverage

33%

Grok 4.3

grok-4.3

Proprietary

Best rank

#6

Coverage

78%

Grok 4.20 Beta 1

grok-4.20-beta1

Proprietary

Best rank

#8

Coverage

22%

Grok 4.1 Fast Search

grok-4-1-fast-search

Proprietary

Best rank

#11

Coverage

11%

Grok 4.20 Beta 0309 Reasoning

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning

Proprietary

Best rank

#15

Coverage

44%

Grok 4 Fast Search

grok-4-fast-search

Proprietary

Best rank

#21

Coverage

11%

Grok 4.1 Thinking

grok-4.1-thinking

Proprietary

Best rank

#25

Coverage

22%

Grok 4 Search

grok-4-search

Proprietary

Best rank

#27

Coverage

11%