Grok 4, released by xAI on July 9, 2025, is the fourth-generation model in the Grok family and the most advanced to date. It is multimodal, supporting text, vision, tool use, and real-time web search, with a reported 256,000-token context window for long-form reasoning and document analysis. Its training data extends through November 2024, making it the most up-to-date Grok model at launch.
The lineup includes Grok 4 Generalist for broad tasks, Grok 4 Heavy for higher-capacity reasoning, and Grok 4 Code optimized for programming and debugging. A notable feature is its always-on “Think” mode, designed for deeper multi-step reasoning. While xAI has not disclosed parameter counts, Grok 4 is positioned to compete with frontier models like GPT-5 and Claude 4, balancing real-time knowledge via web integration with structured tool use. It is best suited for coding, complex reasoning, and multimodal AI assistants.
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Past 30 DaysGrok 4 has not yet been evaluated on the current benchmark. The results below are from the legacy version of Vision Evals, our previous benchmark. See the current Vision Evals
| Category | Passed | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Defect Detection | 12 / 15 | 80% |
| Object Understanding | 8 / 14 | 57.1% |
| Spatial Understanding | 10 / 19 | 52.6% |
| Document Understanding | 4 / 9 | 44.4% |
| Object Counting | 1 / 10 | 10% |
Scores based on a single evaluation run · Methodology
View all legacy Vision Evals results →Estimated cost per task vs. Visual Understanding score, for this model and others ranked near it. Upper-left is the sweet spot (high quality, low cost). Based on Vision Evals (legacy) results.
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| Model | Score | Median tokens | Est. cost / task | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 58.2% | 2.3K | $0.0030 | Compare |
| GPT-5 Nano | 58.2% | 2.7K | $0.0003 | Compare |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B | 58.2% | 1.5K | $0.0008 | Compare |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | 55.2% | 476 | $0.0005 | Compare |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | 53.7% | 301 | <$0.0001 | Compare |
| Grok 4(this model) | 52.2% | — | — | — |
| Kimi K2.5 | 35.8% | 2.7K | $0.0031 | Compare |
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Yes. Grok 4 accepts image input, and on Roboflow's previous vision benchmark it passed 52.2% of visual understanding tasks (#63 of 77). You can test it on your own image in the demo above.
Grok 4 has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals. The results on this page are from the previous benchmark.
Yes. The demo on this page runs Grok 4 in the free Roboflow Playground: upload an image and see results in seconds. A free account unlocks unlimited runs.