1-bit Bonsai 8B vs Grok 4.1 Fast

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 8B· Grok 4.1 Fast

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4.1 Fast if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Grok 4.1 Fast is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 72 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Grok 4.1 Fast's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 70.9 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 92%.

Grok 4.1 Fast gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderPrism MLxAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A138 t/s
TTFTN/A0.54s
Context64K1M

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 8BGrok 4.1 Fast
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.074%
BrowseComp73%
OSWorld-Verified66%
Coding
HumanEval86%
SWE-bench Verified68%
LiveCodeBench54%
SWE-bench Pro63%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro91%
OfficeQA Pro83%
ReasoningGrok 4.1 Fast wins
MuSR50%88%
BBH87%
LongBench v287%
MRCRv289%
KnowledgeGrok 4.1 Fast wins
GPQA30%92%
MMLU94%
SuperGPQA90%
MMLU-Pro81%
HLE20%
FrontierScience83%
SimpleQA90%
Instruction FollowingGrok 4.1 Fast wins
IFEval79.8%90%
Multilingual
MGSM88%
MMLU-ProX83%
MathematicsGrok 4.1 Fast wins
MATH-50066%89%
AIME 202396%
AIME 202498%
AIME 202597%
HMMT Feb 202392%
HMMT Feb 202494%
HMMT Feb 202593%
BRUMO 202595%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Grok 4.1 Fast?

Grok 4.1 Fast is ahead overall, 72 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 92%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Grok 4.1 Fast?

Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.9 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Grok 4.1 Fast?

Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 66. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Grok 4.1 Fast?

Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 87.9 versus 50. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Grok 4.1 Fast?

Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 90 versus 79.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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