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GPT-5.6 Terra vs Grok 4.7

Full profiles: GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI) and Grok 4.7 (SpaceXAI): every benchmark, price and rank.

Updated · Data from 13 sources

As of 6 Nov 2026, GPT-5.6 Terra and Grok 4.7 are neck and neck on quality (60.7 vs 58.3 on the BenchLeader Index, inside the ±5.3 margin), and Grok 4.7 is 1.5× cheaper at $3.00 vs $4.50 per 1M tokens blended. Choose GPT-5.6 Terra for maths (69 vs 56), multimodal (63 vs 56), and reasoning (61 vs 56), where it also streams ~1.5× faster; choose Grok 4.7 for fast first answers (55.1 s vs 96.5 s) and knowledge (61 vs 49) and coding (62 vs 60).

Key facts (as of 6 Nov 2026)

  • GPT-5.6 Terra scores 60.7 on the BenchLeader Index and Grok 4.7 scores 58.3 (BenchLeader, 6 Nov 2026).
  • GPT-5.6 Terra costs $4.50 per 1M tokens blended (list price, 6 Nov 2026).
  • Grok 4.7 costs $3.00 per 1M tokens blended (list price, 6 Nov 2026).
  • GPT-5.6 Terra streams ~1.5× faster than Grok 4.7 (Artificial Analysis, 7-day median, 6 Nov 2026).
  • Of the 57 benchmarks both models have, GPT-5.6 Terra leads 32 (BenchLeader, 6 Nov 2026).

Which to pick for…

The pick's numbers come first. Category scores on the BenchLeader scale (50 is the average model, 15 points one standard deviation). High confidence means a lead of half a standard deviation or more; under one point is called either.

Use casePickWhyConfidence
CodingGrok 4.762 vs 60 category score; FrontierCode 2.0 (AA) 28.7% vs 23.9%Medium
Agents & tool useGPT-5.6 Terra59 vs 57 category score; Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) 77.5% vs 73.4%Medium
MathsGPT-5.6 Terra69 vs 56 category score; FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 86.0% vs 53.0%High
ReasoningGPT-5.6 Terra61 vs 56 category score; GPQA Diamond 93.3% vs 92.7%Medium
KnowledgeGrok 4.761 vs 49 category score; SimpleQA Verified 56.0% vs 43.2%High
Long documentsGPT-5.6 Terra66 vs 63 category score; AA-LCR v1.1 83.0% vs 76.7%Medium
Images and other mediaGPT-5.6 Terra63 vs 56 category score; SAGE 87.0% vs 88.7%High
Chat quality (human preference)–Only Grok 4.7 has an Arena rating (62 category score)Not comparable
Lowest costGrok 4.7$3.00 vs $4.50 per 1M blended; agentic coding session $0.144 vs $0.168–
Fastest first answerGrok 4.755.1 s (Grok 4.7 (xhigh)) vs 96.5 s (GPT-5.6 Terra (max)) to the first answer token–
High volume on a budgetNeither flagshipA smaller model is usually the better fit: Cheapest good LLMs, Fastest LLMs–

Key differences

  • GPT-5.6 Terra (max) and Grok 4.7 (xhigh) are neck and neck on quality (60.7 vs 58.3, within the ±5.3 margin).
  • GPT-5.6 Terra (max) is stronger in agents & tools, instruction following, long context, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
  • Grok 4.7 (xhigh) is stronger in coding, knowledge, human preference.
  • Grok 4.7 (xhigh) is 1.5× cheaper ($3.00 vs $4.50 per 1M blended).
  • GPT-5.6 Terra (max) streams 1.4× faster (100 vs 71 tokens per second).

At a glance

SpecGPT-5.6 TerraGrok 4.7
DeveloperOpenAISpaceXAI
Released9 Jul 202621 Sep 2026
Context window (tokens)1,050,000500,000
Compared atGPT-5.6 Terra (max)Grok 4.7 (xhigh)
Open weightsNoNo
Price in / out / cached input per 1M$2.00 / $12.00 / $0.200$2.00 / $6.00 / $0.500

Category by category

Category scores on the BenchLeader scale: 50 is the average evaluated model, 15 points is one standard deviation. A gap under one point is called level.

CategoryGPT-5.6 Terra (max)Grok 4.7 (xhigh)Leader
Reasoning61.156.4GPT-5.6 Terra
Coding59.861.5Grok 4.7
Agents & tools58.856.9GPT-5.6 Terra
Maths68.655.9GPT-5.6 Terra
Knowledge48.861.1Grok 4.7
Instruction following69.9–not comparable
Human preference–62.3not comparable
Multimodal63.255.7GPT-5.6 Terra
Long context66.463.1GPT-5.6 Terra

On one chart

Each domain on the index's own scale, where 50 is an average model. Click a domain to see the benchmarks behind it. Pick up to 5 models from the list.

2550 avg75ReasoningCodingAgents & toolsMathsKnowledgeLong contextMultimodalGPT-5.6 Terra, Reasoning: 61.1GPT-5.6 Terra, Coding: 59.8GPT-5.6 Terra, Agents & tools: 58.8GPT-5.6 Terra, Maths: 68.6GPT-5.6 Terra, Knowledge: 48.8GPT-5.6 Terra, Long context: 66.4GPT-5.6 Terra, Multimodal: 63.2Grok 4.7, Reasoning: 56.4Grok 4.7, Coding: 61.5Grok 4.7, Agents & tools: 56.9Grok 4.7, Maths: 55.9Grok 4.7, Knowledge: 61.1Grok 4.7, Long context: 63.1Grok 4.7, Multimodal: 55.7

Not drawn, measured for fewer than two of these models: Instruction following, Human preference.

ModelIndex

Where sources disagree

Across the 57 benchmarks both have, GPT-5.6 Terra leads 32, Grok 4.7 leads 23 and 2 are tied. Independent sources split: GPT-5.6 Terra leads on Arena Text; Grok 4.7 leads on AA Intelligence Index v5.0.

Overall indexGPT-5.6 Terra (max)Grok 4.7 (xhigh)Leader
BenchLeader Index60.758.3neck and neck
AA Intelligence Index v5.032.335.5Grok 4.7
Arena Text1467†1441GPT-5.6 Terra

Each publisher runs its own tasks, harnesses and effort settings, so their overall verdicts can differ; BenchLeader reconciles them on one scale. † measured at another effort setting of the same model (the publisher did not test the one compared here).

Price, speed and latency

List prices blended at three input tokens per output token. Per-task prices use the token counts on the methodology page. Cost, tokens and time per benchmark task are measured: Artificial Analysis’ averages over its whole Intelligence Index run.

MeasureGPT-5.6 Terra (max)Grok 4.7 (xhigh)
Blended price per 1M tokens$4.50$3.00
Input / output per 1M$2.00 / $12.00$2.00 / $6.00
Cached input per 1M$0.200$0.500
Price per task: chat reply$0.0044$0.0026
Price per task: summarize a 30-page report$0.031$0.028
Price per task: code edit$0.030$0.021
Price per task: agentic coding session$0.168$0.144
Price per task: structured extraction$0.0064$0.0052
Agentic coding session, input mostly cached$0.087$0.076
Cost per benchmark task (AA Index)$3.73$7.77
Output tokens per task (AA Index)66k105k
Of which reasoning41k69k
Time per task (AA Index)11 min24 min
Output speed100 tok/s71 tok/s
Time to first answer96.5 s55.1 s
Time to a complete answer203.7 s147.2 s

Per token is not per task: an average task of Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index cost $3.73 on GPT-5.6 Terra (max) and $7.77 on Grok 4.7 (xhigh), and Grok 4.7 (xhigh) wrote 1.6× as many output tokens for the same work, which a per-token price hides.

Each model is compared at its best-ranked reasoning-effort setting. GPT-5.6 Terra (max) scores 60.7 and takes 96 s to its first answer token; GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh) scores 60.3 in 26 s, GPT-5.6 Terra (high) scores 57.0 in 11 s. Grok 4.7 (xhigh) scores 58.3 and takes 55 s to its first answer token; Grok 4.7 (high) scores 57.7 in 31 s, Grok 4.7 (low) scores 56.0 in 9 s. Higher effort means more thinking before the answer: better scores, longer waits and more tokens billed. How reasoning effort changes scores and cost.

Every benchmark

147 benchmarks, grouped by category; each name links to the board and its leaders. † measured at another effort setting of the same model, shown for reference and not counted as a win.

MetricPublisherGPT-5.6 Terra (max)Grok 4.7 (xhigh)
BenchLeader IndexBenchLeader60.758.3
Agents & tools scoreBenchLeader58.856.9
Coding scoreBenchLeader59.861.5
Instruction following scoreBenchLeader69.9–
Knowledge scoreBenchLeader48.861.1
Long context scoreBenchLeader66.463.1
Maths scoreBenchLeader68.655.9
Multimodal scoreBenchLeader63.255.7
Reasoning scoreBenchLeader61.156.4
Human preference scoreBenchLeader–62.3
Blended price $/MBenchLeader$4.50$3.00
Output speedBenchLeader100 tok/s71 tok/s
Time to first answerBenchLeader96.5 s55.1 s
Context windowBenchLeader1,050,000 tokens500,000 tokens
Reasoning
GPQA DiamondEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub93.3%92.7%
SimpleBenchSimpleBench48.9%†–
Arena Hard PromptsArena (LMArena)1490†1463
LiveBench 2.0 ReasoningLiveBench90.6%†82.7%†
LiveBench 1.0 ReasoningLiveBench90.6%82.7%
GPQA Diamond (AA)Artificial Analysis92.5%–
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)Artificial Analysis42.9%43.1%
HLE-Diamond (AA)Artificial Analysis28.8%23.2%
GPQA Diamond (Vals)Vals AI90.9%†–
Kagi LLM BenchmarkKagi LLM Benchmark51.3%†–
ARC-AGI-1ARC Prize96.5%89.5%
ARC-AGI-2ARC Prize83.9%61.4%
ARC-AGI-3ARC Prize0.8%7.0%
CritPtArtificial Analysis30.0%17.7%
CritPt v2 hard subset (AA)Artificial Analysis50.5%33.5%
MysteryMechanismVals AI–25.2%
Chess PuzzlesEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub47.0%41.0%
Mystery Game PuzzlesEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub35.0%29.0%
LMCAEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub55.0%49.4%
DTBenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub93.3%96.0%
Coding
SciCodeSciCode55.0%57.4%
WeirdMLWeirdML78.3%†–
FrontierCodeCognition41.3%†47.6%†
Arena CodingArena (LMArena)1517†1494
Arena WebDevArena (LMArena)1520†1638
Show all 147 benchmarks
MetricPublisherGPT-5.6 Terra (max)Grok 4.7 (xhigh)
Coding
LiveBench 2.0 CodingLiveBench86.2%†84.5%†
LiveBench 1.0 CodingLiveBench78.3%77.2%
LiveCodeBenchVals AI85.9%†–
IOIVals AI87.6%57.7%
SWE-bench (Vals)Vals AI95.4%–
Code MigrationVals AI47.8%44.8%
Code Migration v1.1Vals AI–53.2%
ProgramBenchVals AI0.5%0.5%
SWE-bench MultimodalVals AI–42.9%
Vibe Code Bench 1-100Vals AI14.8%–
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Vals AI74.6%86.2%
Surface Evolver BenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub83.8%†–
DeepSWE v1.1Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub69.6%–
CursorBenchCursor41.3%46.3%
ALE-BenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub1951.4–
FrontierSWEEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–29.5%
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)Artificial Analysis35.4%25.8%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)Artificial Analysis88.0%–
Startrise FrontendStartrise66.9%†75.9%†
GameBench 2 OverallDuelLab GameBench 245.4†63.4†
GameBench 2 by reasoning settingDuelLab GameBench 253.0†71.5
FrontierCode 1.1 (AA)Artificial Analysis–33.8%
FrontierCode 2.0 (AA)Artificial Analysis23.9%28.7%
Agents & tools
Terminal-BenchTerminal-Bench21.5%37.6%
APEX-AgentsMercor58.2%54.6%†
Arena AgentArena (LMArena)-1.5†2.7
LiveBench Long AgenticLiveBench33.1%†46.1%†
LiveBench BrowserLiveBench70.3%†49.3%†
LiveBench Agentic CodingLiveBench55.0%54.0%
Terminal-Bench HardArtificial Analysis57.6%–
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)Artificial Analysis86.3%–
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)Vals AI77.5%73.4%
GDPval-AA v2.1, normalised scoreArtificial Analysis47.6%60.7%
GDPval-AA v2.1Artificial Analysis–1718
τ³-Banking (AA)Artificial Analysis40.2%–
ITBench SRE (AA)Artificial Analysis51.0%42.1%
Analyst Agent (AA)Artificial Analysis–52.5%
APEX-Agents (AA)Artificial Analysis38.9%–
CyberBenchVals AI72.1%69.5%
Finance Agent v2Vals AI54.4%52.3%
Finance Agent v2.1Vals AI–60.6%
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1.1Vals AI–18.3%
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1Vals AI0.8%12.5%
Legal Research BenchVals AI41.4%47.1%
Robo-benchVals AI–0.2%
SkillsBenchVals AI58.9%–
SREBenchVals AI9.5%3.8%
Tax Agent BenchVals AI30.0%34.2%
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)Vals AI22.7%28.8%
Terminal-Bench ScienceVals AI10.0%10.0%
BALROGBALROG53.2%–
Vending-Bench 2Andon Labs7343.2†10536.8†
AutomationBenchArtificial Analysis59.6%65.6%
GDP.pdf (AA)Artificial Analysis24.0%20.0%
Harvey LAB-AA v1.1Harvey–9.4%
EnterpriseOps-GymArtificial Analysis38.5%–
AA-Briefcase v1.1Artificial Analysis–1637
GDPxGDPx by SemiAnalysis–3.9%
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA)Artificial Analysis13.8%11.4%
CWE-Bench (AA)Artificial Analysis–68.3%
DeepSec-Bench (AA)Artificial Analysis–26.9%
CyberGym end-to-end (AA)Artificial Analysis–74.0%
Maths
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub86.0%53.0%
FrontierMath Tier 4Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub70.7%17.1%
OTIS Mock AIMEEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub99.7%98.1%
ProofBenchVals AI74.0%†26.0%†
LiveBench MathematicsLiveBench94.9%95.7%
Arena MathsArena (LMArena)1480†1443
Knowledge
SimpleQA VerifiedEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub43.2%56.0%
LiveBench 2.0 Data AnalysisLiveBench79.3%†76.9%†
LiveBench ResearchLiveBench60.4%†86.4%†
LiveBench 1.0 Data AnalysisLiveBench79.3%76.9%
AA-Omniscience v1.1Artificial Analysis-9.331.2
MMLU-ProVals AI86.7%†–
LegalBenchVals AI85.1%84.4%
CorpFinVals AI65.3%†–
TaxEvalVals AI76.2%†–
PRBench LegalScale AI SEAL–47.6%
BioMysteryBenchVals AI–69.3%
Excel Modeling BenchmarkVals AI66.2%67.0%
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1Vals AI–71.5%
MedCodeVals AI43.4%†49.5%
MedScribeVals AI82.9%†89.4%
Public Benefits Bench v1.1Vals AI62.4%65.6%
GDP.pdfEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub24.7%†22.8%
AA-Omniscience v1.1: accuracyArtificial Analysis42.3%42.7%
AA-Omniscience v1.1: non-hallucinationArtificial Analysis10.6%80.0%
HealthBench Professional (AA)OpenAI–55.8%
Instruction following
LiveBench LanguageLiveBench82.9%80.1%
LiveBench Instruction FollowingLiveBench64.6%75.3%
IFBenchArtificial Analysis71.2%–
Arena Instruction FollowingArena (LMArena)1463†1438
Human preference
Arena TextArena (LMArena)1467†1441
EQ-Bench 4EQ-Bench1220†–
Arena Creative WritingArena (LMArena)1429†1419
Arena Multi-turnArena (LMArena)1474†1432
Arena Longer QueriesArena (LMArena)1468†1452
Multimodal
Arena VisionArena (LMArena)1271†1231
LiveBench DesignLiveBench76.0%†78.0%†
MMMU-ProArtificial Analysis80.7%78.2%†
MMMU-Pro (Vals)Vals AI86.5%–
MortgageTaxVals AI67.3%†–
SAGEVals AI87.0%88.7%
Blueprint-Bench 2Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub30.8%†32.5%†
Code2Video-AAArtificial Analysis–1127
AA-3DArtificial Analysis–995
Long context
AA-LCR v1.1Artificial Analysis83.0%76.7%
Arena DocumentArena (LMArena)1477†–
MLCRArtificial Analysis27.2%20.0%
Composite
Epoch Capabilities IndexEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub160.9†156.1†
LiveBench 2.0LiveBench67.8%†70.1%†
LiveBench 1.0LiveBench77.9%77.4%
AA Intelligence Index v5.0Artificial Analysis32.335.5
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2Artificial Analysis42.146.5
AA Progress Index v1Artificial Analysis323.9322.7
Vals IndexVals AI–58.6
Vals Finance IndexVals AI–58.5%
Vals RSI IndexVals AI–20.2%
Vals Science IndexVals AI–34.8%
Vals Multimodal IndexVals AI65.1%†–
Vals Router IndexVals AI–58.6%†
AA Cyber IndexArtificial Analysis–56.4

Data as of 2026-11-06. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

DuelLab GameBench 2, release gb2-20261103-09b2218cbd85 (https://benchmarks.duellab.org/releases/gb2-20261103-09b2218cbd85/), CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Scores mapped to BenchLeader model names; not endorsed by DuelLab.

What changed

  • GPT-5.6 Terra (max): BenchLeader Index 61.2 → 60.6.
  • GPT-5.6 Terra (max): 3 new results (AA Intelligence Index v5.0, CritPt v2 hard subset (AA), FrontierCode 2.0 (AA)).
  • Grok 4.7 (xhigh): 2 score revisions.
  • Grok 4.7 (xhigh): 2 score revisions.
  • GPT-5.6 Terra (max): 1 new result (MirrorCode).
  • Grok 4.7 (xhigh): 1 score revision.
  • GPT-5.6 Terra (max): BenchLeader Index 62.5 → 61.2.
  • Grok 4.7 (xhigh): BenchLeader Index 59.5 → 58.0.
  • GPT-5.6 Terra (max): 2 new results (AA Progress Index v1, HLE-Diamond (AA)); 4 score revisions.
  • Grok 4.7 (xhigh): 5 new results (AA Intelligence Index v5.0, AA Progress Index v1, HLE-Diamond (AA)…); 4 score revisions; cost per task moved from $3.24/M to $7.51/M (132% up).

Rankings: Best LLM overall · Best LLM for agents · Best cheap LLMs

GPT-5.6 Terra vs Grok 4.7: questions

Is GPT-5.6 Terra better than Grok 4.7?
GPT-5.6 Terra (max) and Grok 4.7 (xhigh) are neck and neck on quality (60.7 vs 58.3, within the ±5.3 margin). The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; the two are within the margin of error as of 6 Nov 2026, so check the category scores for your use.
GPT-5.6 Terra vs Grok 4.7: which is cheaper, and will that change?
Grok 4.7 is cheaper today: $3.00 against $4.50 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token. No price change has been announced for either.
Is GPT-5.6 Terra or Grok 4.7 better for coding?
Grok 4.7 scores higher in coding (62 vs 60 on the category index, where 50 is average). On FrontierCode 2.0 (AA), the top shared coding benchmark, it is 23.9% for GPT-5.6 Terra against 28.7% for Grok 4.7.
Which is faster, GPT-5.6 Terra or Grok 4.7?
GPT-5.6 Terra streams ~1.5× faster (100 vs 71 output tokens per second, Artificial Analysis 7-day median).
Is GPT-5.6 Terra or Grok 4.7 better for agents and tool use?
GPT-5.6 Terra scores higher in agentic tasks (59 vs 57 on the category index, where 50 is average). On Terminal-Bench, the top shared agents & tools benchmark, it is 21.5% for GPT-5.6 Terra against 37.6% for Grok 4.7.
More questions (4)
Which is better for long documents?
GPT-5.6 Terra scores higher on long-context benchmarks (66 vs 63). GPT-5.6 Terra accepts more context: 1,050,000 against 500,000 tokens for Grok 4.7.
Which has lower latency?
Grok 4.7 answers first: 55.1 s against 96.5 s to the first answer token, as Artificial Analysis measures it. Reasoning effort drives most of this: a higher setting thinks longer before it answers.
Do independent benchmarks agree on GPT-5.6 Terra vs Grok 4.7?
Across the 57 benchmarks both have, GPT-5.6 Terra leads 32, Grok 4.7 leads 23 and 2 are tied. Independent sources split: GPT-5.6 Terra leads on Arena Text; Grok 4.7 leads on AA Intelligence Index v5.0.
When was Grok 4.7 released?
Grok 4.7 was released on 21 Sep 2026.