# Grok 4.5 vs SWE-1.7

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Grok 4.5 and SWE-1.7 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/grok-4-5-vs-swe-1-7
- Last updated: October 6, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Grok 4.5 and SWE-1.7 share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Grok 4.5 has the larger published context window at 500K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Grok 4.5 | SWE-1.7 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | xAI | Cognition |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 500K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 63.94 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 17 | 4 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $6.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 57.4 (Supported · #28/120)
- SWE-1.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Grok 4.5 | SWE-1.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 15.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 83.3% | 81.5% | Grok 4.5 |
| deepSwe | 53% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 67.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 57.6 (Supported · #25/144)
- SWE-1.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Grok 4.5 | SWE-1.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 78% | 77.8% | Grok 4.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 83.3% | 81.5% | Grok 4.5 |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 66.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 89.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | 23.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | Coming soon | 42.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 50.4 (#27/27)
- SWE-1.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Grok 4.5 | SWE-1.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 0.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 85.67% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 79.5 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- SWE-1.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 66.9 (Supported · #20/173)
- SWE-1.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Grok 4.5 | SWE-1.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Grok 4.5 and SWE-1.7?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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## Explore More

- [Grok 4.5 profile](/models/grok-4-5)
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