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xAI Proprietary Released Mar 9, 2026 Updated

Grok-4.20 Beta Reasoning

ToolsGuide Scores, rankings, test results and price.

Model summary

  • Text #49 / 416

    494 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes only

  • Vision #51 / 167

    455 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes only

  • Coding #103 / 147

    266 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes only

  • Price per 1M tokens

    No listed price

Summary

Grok-4.20 Beta Reasoning is xAI's model, released Mar 9, 2026. It's ranked in 3 categories and does best at text: #49 of 416, with a ToolsGuide Score of 494 against a median of 235.

It also ranks #51 of 167 for vision (455), #103 of 147 for coding (266).

Its text and vision and coding score uses votes only, because it has published fewer than two of the tests used for those categories.

It has published results on 4 tests.

Specifications

Creator
xAI
Licence
Proprietary
Released
Mar 9, 2026
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Input price
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Output price
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Tests reported
4
Settings ranked
grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning, Grok 4.20 Beta (Reasoning, 0309)

Model comparison

Against the ten best text models.

Text score

ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better

Vision score

ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better

Input price

USD per 1M input tokens · Lower is better

Leaderboards

Where Grok-4.20 Beta Reasoning sits among the top 20 in each category.

Text

#49 of 416 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full text leaderboard →

Vision

#51 of 167 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full vision leaderboard →

Coding

#103 of 147 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full coding leaderboard →

By task

Scored from votes on each kind of prompt alone, on the same 1,000-point scale.

Against its nearest rivals

Text prompts by kind · ToolsGuide Score from votes · hover for values

Text

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning · hover a bar for its rank

Vision

Grok 4.20 Beta (Reasoning, 0309) · hover a bar for its rank

Coding

Grok 4.20 Beta (Reasoning, 0309) · hover a bar for its rank

Test results

Every test Grok-4.20 Beta Reasoning has a published result on, out of 100%, with its rank among the models that took it.

  • MRCR v2 (8-needle)

    #19 / 32

    MRCR v2 (8-needle) is a variant of the Multi-Round Coreference Resolution benchmark that includes 8 needle items to retrieve from long contexts. This tests models' ability to simultaneously track and reason about multiple pieces of information across extended conversations.

    32.9%

    Verified · In the text score

  • Finance Agent v2

    #27 / 28

    Finance Agent v2 is an agentic financial-analysis benchmark from Vals that evaluates models on real-world finance workflows, measuring their ability to retrieve and reason over financial documents, perform multi-step calculations, and produce accurate analyses.

    28.5%

    Self-reported

  • mrcr-v2 (8needle_32768_65536)

    #2 / 10

    32.9%

    Unverified

  • mrcr-v2 (8needle_4096_8192)

    #2 / 10

    82.7%

    Unverified