Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Data sourced from the Interestana AI Index, kept current as developers update their models.
Model A — OpenAI
GPT-5 is OpenAI’s next-generation multimodal model, extending native video understanding, audio synthesis, and unified reasoning across modalities in a single forward pass.
Model B — xAI
Grok 4 is xAI’s flagship model, trained on the Colossus supercomputer cluster. Distinguished by real-time access to X (Twitter) data for current-events reasoning.
| Property | GPT-5 | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Mar 18, 2026 | Apr 10, 2026 |
| Developer | OpenAI | xAI |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Parameters | undisclosed | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $5.00 | $3.00 |
| Output $/M tokens | $20.00 | $15.00 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins).
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