1-bit Bonsai 1.7B vs Grok 4

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B· Grok 4

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Grok 4 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 68 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Grok 4's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 86.4 against 34.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 20.7% to 86%.

Grok 4 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderPrism MLxAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A54 t/s
TTFTN/A15.60s
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 1.7BGrok 4
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.057%
BrowseComp63%
OSWorld-Verified56%
Coding
HumanEval79%
SWE-bench Verified73%
LiveCodeBench79.4%
SWE-bench Pro48%
React Native Evals70.1%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro80%
OfficeQA Pro76%
ReasoningGrok 4 wins
MuSR45.1%81%
BBH83%
LongBench v272%
MRCRv271%
ARC-AGI-216%
KnowledgeGrok 4 wins
GPQA20.7%86%
MMLU87%
SuperGPQA84%
MMLU-Pro77%
HLE16%
FrontierScience75%
SimpleQA83%
Instruction FollowingGrok 4 wins
IFEval63%82%
Multilingual
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX79%
MathematicsGrok 4 wins
MATH-50034.4%83%
AIME 202387%
AIME 202489%
AIME 202588%
HMMT Feb 202384%
HMMT Feb 202486%
HMMT Feb 202585%
BRUMO 202587%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Grok 4?

Grok 4 is ahead overall, 68 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 20.7% and 86%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Grok 4?

Grok 4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.3 versus 20.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Grok 4?

Grok 4 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86.4 versus 34.4. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Grok 4?

Grok 4 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59.6 versus 45.1. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Grok 4?

Grok 4 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 63. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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