Benchmark Almanac

Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 ranks first on 4 of the 253 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

xAI Released August 12th, 2026 Family Grok 4.6 The lab's model card Compare with others
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Benchmarks with a score
4
Ranked first, out of five or more models
17
In the top three
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Grok 4.6

Closed weights Flagship

157.8 #28 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 160.7 #26 of 404
  • DeepSWE 67.5% #9 /28
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 20.3% #25 /40
  • ZeroBench 17% #26 /76

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BullshitBench 63.6% #15 of 107 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,456 #54 of 335 Official leaderboard
DesignArena ASCII Art 1,267 #15 of 77 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 66% #27 of 129 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 52.9% #15 of 56 Official leaderboard
HLE Extended 45.8% #11 of 31 Official leaderboard
OpenAI MRCR v2 47.7% #18 of 47 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 80% #42 of 103 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR Extended 65.2% #22 of 49 Official leaderboard
FACTS Grounding v2 66.5% #14 of 25 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric V2 44.5% #18 of 27 Official leaderboard
StudyArena Text 1,210 #62 of 85 Official leaderboard
FACTS Benchmark Suite 59.5% #17 of 23 Official leaderboard
Document Arena 1,450 #29 of 39 Official leaderboard
Antidote 966 #28 of 36 Official leaderboard
Hemingway-bench 983 #33 of 42 Official leaderboard
FACTS Multimodal 39.3% #19 of 23 Official leaderboard
Joke Arena 1,469 #21 of 25 Official leaderboard
Lech Mazur Creative Writing -2.93 #46 of 50 Official leaderboard
xAI Factuality (Hallucination) eval 1.70% #2 of 2 Lab model card

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
DTBench 97.3% #7 of 180 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 94% #15 of 229 Epoch AI run
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 99.2% #22 of 212 Epoch AI run
ForecastBench 0.12 #10 of 82 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 75.9% #17 of 106 Official leaderboard
FrontierChallenge 20.6% #2 of 11 Official leaderboard
BixBench3 48.8 #5 of 20 Official leaderboard
ProofBench 45% #17 of 59 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 67.1% #29 of 98 Official leaderboard
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 47.4% #8 of 27 Official leaderboard
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 59.1% #8 of 26 Official leaderboard
BioMysteryBench 72.2% #12 of 30 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 66% #35 of 86 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 87.5% #40 of 95 Official leaderboard
MysteryMechanism 30.6% #14 of 31 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 31.7% #32 of 68 Official leaderboard
ExplorationBench 69% #5 of 10 Official leaderboard
BixBench 93.8% #2 of 4 Lab model card
ProofBench v1.1 51% #30 of 52 Official leaderboard
Prophet Arena 85.6 #14 of 24 Official leaderboard
xbench-ScienceQA 70.4% #19 of 29 Official leaderboard
SciUniverse 26.2% #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
FrontierPhysics 2.40% #18 of 22 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench-Science 7.14% #14 of 17 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
DesignArena Android (Kotlin) 1,280 #3 of 46 Official leaderboard
APEX-SWE 57.7% #6 of 65 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,618 #15 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
FrontierCode 1.1 61.3% #2 of 13 Lab model card
SWE-bench Verified Extended 78% #7 of 44 Official leaderboard
FrogsGame post-training task 9.30% #3 of 17 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE v1 77.9% #3 of 17 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,282 #22 of 118 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Full Stack 1,242 #10 of 49 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 67.3% #23 of 112 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Godot Game Dev 1,256 #5 of 24 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,281 #30 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Website 1,278 #32 of 151 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,618 #28 of 128 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 1,285 #31 of 139 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 1,282 #32 of 143 Official leaderboard
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,607 #13 of 55 Official leaderboard
DesignArena React Native 1,226 #14 of 56 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 44.6% #20 of 78 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 1,257 #35 of 136 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,822 #34 of 126 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Overall 1,230 #21 of 74 Official leaderboard
DesignArena SVG 1,221 #30 of 103 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Frontend Web App 1,230 #16 of 53 Official leaderboard
DAXBench v2 83.9% #15 of 47 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 67.5% #9 of 28 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 76.2% #42 of 120 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Codebase QnA Extended 19.3% #14 of 38 Official leaderboard
Vals RSI Index 0.26 #10 of 27 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to HTML 1,218 #19 of 51 Official leaderboard
ReactBench 33.9% #11 of 28 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Game Dev 1,158 #11 of 27 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to Frontend 1,205 #14 of 31 Official leaderboard
Snorkel Agentic Coding 2.0 33.6% #8 of 16 Official leaderboard
MacroscopeBench 75.9% #9 of 16 Official leaderboard
MirrorCode 41.1% #22 of 39 Epoch AI run
Senior SWE-Bench 26.3% #13 of 23 Official leaderboard
SWE-Together 60.6% #13 of 22 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench CLI 5.70% #10 of 16 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 47.6% #29 of 45 Official leaderboard
RSI-Exam 36.7% #12 of 18 Official leaderboard
AutoResearchExam 0.49 #8 of 12 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE 25.3% #17 of 25 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 41.4% #15 of 21 cursor.com, via Epoch AI
SWE-Marathon 31.9% #8 of 11 Lab model card
DesignArena Blender 1,149 #9 of 12 Official leaderboard
LibraryDesignBench 39.7 #6 of 8 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 4.0 41.4% #16 of 21 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 14.8% #20 of 26 Official leaderboard
Landing Page Arena 1,402 #12 of 14 Official leaderboard
Brokk Power Ranking 1.50 #19 of 19 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 3.2 70.8% #2 of 2 Lab model card
InferenceEval 46.9% #1 of 1 Lab model card
KernelBenchInternal 37.2% #1 of 1 Lab model card
SpaceXAI MTS Eval 61.1% #1 of 1 Lab model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Extended 45.5% #5 of 44 Official leaderboard
RuneBench 6.28 #9 of 76 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 500 #6 of 39 Official leaderboard
TraceTrial-Bench 76.7% #2 of 9 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 521 #12 of 39 Official leaderboard
CEO-Bench $246,419 #6 of 19 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 295 #13 of 41 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Four in a Row 502 #14 of 43 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 34% #29 of 84 Epoch AI run
LLM Chess 443 #44 of 123 Official leaderboard
BabaIsBench 96% #12 of 32 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Bargaining 214 #15 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 935 #16 of 40 Official leaderboard
RecreationBench 36.7% #4 of 10 Official leaderboard
DuelLab GameBench 2 68.7 #23 of 57 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Go 1,023 #16 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 289 #17 of 40 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 686 #17 of 39 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 3.0 26.5% #5 of 11 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Coin Game 378 #18 of 39 Official leaderboard
Kaggle Game Arena 324 #20 of 42 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Poker 0.18 #15 of 31 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 808 #21 of 42 Official leaderboard
EBR-bench 30.5% #16 of 31 Epoch AI run
Chess Puzzles 33% #50 of 93 Epoch AI run
ARC-AGI-3 2.11% #15 of 27 Official leaderboard
Agent Arena -0.19% #34 of 56 Official leaderboard
DeepSearchQA 81.6% #14 of 23 Lab model card
BrowseComp Extended 21.5% #26 of 42 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 20.3% #25 of 40 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.1 19.7% #27 of 43 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 367 #25 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 331 #25 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 167 #27 of 39 Official leaderboard
ApprenticeBench 13% #13 of 18 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Checkers 552 #34 of 41 Official leaderboard
Time Horizon Index: KSP 5.83% #12 of 13 Official leaderboard
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0 42% #14 of 15 Official leaderboard
Brood War Bench 11.1% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SnorkelFinance 2.0 25.1% #1 of 16 Official leaderboard
OR-License 88.4% #1 of 11 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 86.3% #14 of 138 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 15.8% #9 of 80 Official leaderboard
FoodTruck Bench $59,537 #7 of 59 Official leaderboard
SnorkelLegal 40.7% #2 of 16 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 48.1% #14 of 93 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 57.5% #2 of 12 Lab model card
APEX-Agents 1.1 77.3% #11 of 65 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 66.2% #21 of 119 Official leaderboard
EnterpriseBench: CoreCraft 65.6% #9 of 51 Official leaderboard
SnorkelRevOps 15.8% #3 of 16 Official leaderboard
WorkplaceAgents 17.1% #3 of 14 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,753 #6 of 27 Lab model card
Vending-Bench 2 $9,047 #15 of 67 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 33.7% #19 of 84 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 86.5% #22 of 97 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Spreadsheet 1,274 #8 of 35 Official leaderboard
DesignArena PDF 1,239 #9 of 37 Official leaderboard
SnorkelManufacturing 16.4% #4 of 16 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Finance 21% #10 of 39 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Healthcare 14.8% #10 of 37 Official leaderboard
APEX-1 67.7% #20 of 71 Official leaderboard
DesignArena HTML Slides 1,144 #8 of 28 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2 59.2% #19 of 65 Official leaderboard
Tuesday Work Index 60.8 #13 of 44 Official leaderboard
GDPval Extended 1.90% #13 of 43 Official leaderboard
YC-Bench $1,568,241 #18 of 59 Official leaderboard
TRLawBench 9.38 #11 of 34 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 66.8% #17 of 50 Official leaderboard
ATLAS-Finance 4.67% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
ATLAS-Finance v1.1.0 4.67% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
Clipping Bench $805 #7 of 19 Official leaderboard
APEX-Accounting 60.3% #19 of 49 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Python-PPTX Slides 1,197 #14 of 36 Official leaderboard
MedCode 44.7% #38 of 96 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 53.7% #32 of 80 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 85.8% #20 of 50 Official leaderboard
EEBench 57.1% #12 of 30 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 62.7% #31 of 76 Official leaderboard
AA-Briefcase 1,577 #3 of 7 Lab model card
Vals Index v2.1 52.1% #23 of 49 Official leaderboard
LifeSci Diamond 3.60% #9 of 18 Official leaderboard
Digital Work Index 20.5 #8 of 16 Official leaderboard
Epoch Automation Reports 59.1% #3 of 6 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 64.2% #44 of 87 Official leaderboard
PharmaBench (micro1) 12.5% #7 of 13 Official leaderboard
CAD Arena 0.35 #7 of 12 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 71.1% #79 of 129 Official leaderboard
BlenderWorld 57.0 #8 of 13 Official leaderboard
Immigration Bench 66% #16 of 25 Official leaderboard
FrontierCAD Assemblies 0.33 #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
3DCodeBench 54% #2 of 3 Lab model card
RealmPathology 72.1% #9 of 13 Official leaderboard
Parametric CAD Bench 27.7% #8 of 11 Official leaderboard
MedXpertQA MM Extended 48.4% #32 of 41 Official leaderboard
MBABench 2.0 1.00% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA 63.2% #12 of 14 Lab model card
HW-Bench 13% #13 of 15 Official leaderboard
micro1 Medical Index 64.1% #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
Bedside Bench 83.3% #15 of 17 Official leaderboard
SnorkelUnderwrite 2.0 17.8% #16 of 16 Official leaderboard
FrontierCAD Parts 0.26 #6 of 6 Official leaderboard
CADGenBench 40.9% #2 of 2 Lab model card
PartBench 58.5% #1 of 1 Lab model card

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GlobeBench 28.1% #2 of 19 Official leaderboard
VoxelBench 2,077 #11 of 56 Official leaderboard
BVB 70.9 #10 of 45 Official leaderboard
MineBench 1,793 #18 of 75 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,263 #34 of 136 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 17% #26 of 76 Official leaderboard
CineRecon 49.0 #5 of 12 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 2 33.2% #16 of 38 Official leaderboard
ArtifactArena 1,136 #9 of 21 Official leaderboard
ClockBench 20% #19 of 37 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code to Video 1,139 #15 of 29 Official leaderboard
Furniture Assembly Benchmark 40% #19 of 35 Official leaderboard
Chartography 20.5% #24 of 43 Official leaderboard
CharXiv Extended 77.3% #27 of 38 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro Extended 26% #31 of 38 Official leaderboard
Code2Video Benchmark 1,450 #17 of 19 Official leaderboard
1H-VideoQA 60% #18 of 20 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) 67.4% #1 of 31 Lab model card
SecIT Bench 80.7% #4 of 26 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 86.8 #40 of 185 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 61.7% #7 of 30 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 61.6% #21 of 86 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Antibody-Discovery 53% #8 of 30 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Refusal 46.9% #6 of 22 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Function 44% #8 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Oligo-Discovery 46% #10 of 30 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Surveillance 48% #9 of 27 Official leaderboard
Autointent-Bio 100% #1 of 3 Lab model card
Autointent-Chem 100% #1 of 3 Lab model card
LAB-Bench 80.7% #1 of 3 Lab model card
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 62.1% #24 of 71 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 79.7% #12 of 34 Official leaderboard
World-Class Bio 50.3% #27 of 74 Official leaderboard
VariantBench 40.4% #10 of 27 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Refuse 76.1% #26 of 69 Official leaderboard
MetagenomicsBench 42% #11 of 26 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 50.4% #39 of 90 Official leaderboard
OncologyBench 18.7% #13 of 30 Official leaderboard
EpiBench 23.6% #12 of 27 Official leaderboard
ProtocolQA Open-Ended (xAI) 79.6% #2 of 4 Lab model card
Biosecurity VCT 47.8% #1 of 2 Lab model card
Biopharma Bench 54.3% #7 of 13 Official leaderboard
scBench-Long 16.5% #15 of 27 Official leaderboard
CWE-bench 57% #7 of 12 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 67.7% #26 of 44 Official leaderboard
SpatialBench-Long 27.4% #16 of 27 Official leaderboard
General refusals (xAI) 0.93% #5 of 8 Lab model card
BioTIER Permit 99.2% #44 of 69 Official leaderboard
AI Wellbeing Index percent positive experiences 69.7% #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
Child safety (xAI) 0% #2 of 3 Lab model card
FORTRESS-RN 97.9% #2 of 3 Lab model card
HackerBench 6.90% #2 of 3 Lab model card
Self-harm refusals (xAI) 0.84% #2 of 3 Lab model card
Standard jailbreaks (xAI) 0.04% #2 of 3 Lab model card
DeepsecBench 16.1 #20 of 29 Official leaderboard
xAI sycophancy eval 0.04% #3 of 4 Lab model card
CVE-Bench 39.8% #12 of 14 Lab model card
PCT (Polarized Contrastive Pairs) 55.4% #40 of 46 Official leaderboard
WellnessBench 43% #12 of 12 Official leaderboard
BioUseBench 90.7% #2 of 2 Lab model card
Long-horizon jailbreaks (xAI) 1.00% #2 of 2 Lab model card
SecureCodeReview (xAI) 58.7% #1 of 1 Lab model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 61.0 #1 of 8 Lab model card
Conceptual Reasoning Index 62.5 #32 of 151 Official leaderboard
LMCA 48.5% #33 of 147 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 43.5 #17 of 68 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 71.6 #41 of 152 Official leaderboard
Xbench 40.7 #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 48.8 #28 of 67 Official leaderboard
CompassRank 78.0 #7 of 14 Official leaderboard
Vals Science Index 38.1% #14 of 25 Official leaderboard
LiveBench 63.5% #20 of 31 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 28.9% #78 of 81 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 160.7, 2.9 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 7 capability results xAI reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 155.6 to 165.9. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 6 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
EEBench 60% EEBench V1 core corpus, reward, xhigh, Grok Build harness, run by Atopile (4.1). High = 53.0% 57.1% Leaderboard, Grok CLI +2.9 pts
APEX-SWE 56.4% APEX-SWE 57.7% Leaderboard, xhigh, terminus-2 −1.3 pts
Terminal-Bench 3.0 26% Terminal-Bench v3.0 26.5% Leaderboard, high, Grok Build −0.5 pts
DeepSWE 67% DeepSWE v1.1, Pass@1, xhigh, mini-swe-agent, run by Datacurve (2.4). High = 65.9% 67.5% Leaderboard, medium, mini-swe-agent −0.5 pts
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 15.8% Harvey LAB (Vals) 15.8% Leaderboard Same
CyberGym 79.7% CyberGym, mean reproduced, high, unrestricted, Grok Build harness (7.1) 79.7% Leaderboard, Grok Build Same

xAI's models over time

xAI's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Grok 4.7 Grok 4 Fast Grok-2 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Grok 4.7 Grok 4 Fast

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 34 of them aren't in the launch post.

Model Card: Grok 4.6 Aug 12, 2026

Alignment

Cyber risk