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Grok 4.20 ReasoningvsSonar
Grok 4.20 Reasoning and Sonar do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Sonar is 1.9x cheaper per token. Grok 4.20 Reasoning has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Sonar
1.9x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Grok 4.20 Reasoning
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
— · 100%
xAI · Perplexity
Grok 4.20 Reasoning
xAI · released 2026-03-09
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 5 only Grok 4.20 Reasoning · 1 only Sonar| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 Reasoning | Sonar | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only Grok 4.20 Reasoning reports · 5 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 89.3% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 17.1% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 44.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 92.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 30.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Sonar reports · 1 | ||||
| SimpleQA F-score | not reported | 77.3% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Grok 4.20 Reasoning minus Sonar in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Grok 4.20 Reasoning | Sonar | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 128K tokens | Grok 4.20 Reasoning |
| Max output | — | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $1.25 ↗ | $1 ↗ | Sonar |
| Output price / 1M | $2.5 ↗ | $1 ↗ | Sonar |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $3.75 | $2 | Sonar |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Grok 4.20 Reasoning |
| Released | 2026-03-09 | 2025-01-21 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 5 | 1 | — |
Reliability
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