Grok 4.1 Fast vs o1

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

Grok 4.1 Fast is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 83 to 51. 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 coding, where it averages 69.3 against 41. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 68 to 41. o1 does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

o1 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Grok 4.1 Fast is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Grok 4.1 Fast gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for o1.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4.1 Fast if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Knowledge

o1

Grok 4.1 Fast

77.5

o1

83.8

94
MMLU
91.8
92
GPQA
75.7
90
SuperGPQA
-
88
OpenBookQA
-
81
MMLU-Pro
-
20
HLE
-

Coding

Grok 4.1 Fast

Grok 4.1 Fast

69.3

o1

41

86
HumanEval
-
68
SWE-bench Verified
41
54
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

Grok 4.1 Fast

Grok 4.1 Fast

94.3

o1

74.3

96
AIME 2023
-
98
AIME 2024
74.3
97
AIME 2025
-
92
HMMT Feb 2023
-
94
HMMT Feb 2024
-
93
HMMT Feb 2025
-
95
BRUMO 2025
-
89
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Grok 4.1 Fast
90
SimpleQA
-
88
MuSR
-
87
BBH
-

Instruction Following

o1

Grok 4.1 Fast

90

o1

92.2

90
IFEval
92.2

Multilingual

Grok 4.1 Fast
88
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 4.1 Fast or o1?

Grok 4.1 Fast is ahead overall, 83 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 68 and 41.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 4.1 Fast or o1?

o1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 83.8 versus 77.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 4.1 Fast or o1?

Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 69.3 versus 41. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Grok 4.1 Fast or o1?

Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 74.3. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Grok 4.1 Fast or o1?

o1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 92.2 versus 90. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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