AI Flash Report

Granite 4.1 30B vs Grok 4.3: Benchmarks, Pricing & Capabilities Compared

TL;DR — Granite 4.1 30B wins for general use · Grok 4.3 wins for reasoning + long-context.

Released
2026-04-29
Context window
131K tokens
Input price
$0.00 / Mtok
Output price
$0.00 / Mtok
Grok 4.3 xAI
Released
2026-04-30
Context window
1M tokens
Input price
$1.25 / Mtok
Output price
$2.50 / Mtok

Benchmark comparison

Benchmark Granite 4.1 30B Grok 4.3
AA Intelligence Index 14.7 53.2
GPQA Diamond 48.1% 90.1%
HLE 4.2% 35.0%
IF-Bench 44.4% 81.3%
LiveCodeBench Reasoning 18.7% 64.3%
SciCode 25.8% 47.3%
TAU2-bench 42.1% 97.7%
TerminalBench-Hard 2.3% 37.9%

Pricing comparison

Metric Granite 4.1 30B Grok 4.3
Input ($/Mtok) $0.00 $1.25
Output ($/Mtok) $0.00 $2.50
Cached input ($/Mtok)
Cost per 1M-token roundtrip (1M in + 1M out) $0.00 $3.75

Context window & modalities

Attribute Granite 4.1 30B Grok 4.3
Context window 131K tokens 1M tokens
Input modalities text text, image
Output modalities text text
Knowledge cutoff

Verdict by use case

Coding
Insufficient data
Basis: SWE-bench

No shared coding benchmark.

Reasoning
→ Grok 4.3
Basis: GPQA Diamond

Granite 4.1 30B 48.1% vs Grok 4.3 90.1% on GPQA Diamond.

Math
Insufficient data
Basis: MATH / AIME

No shared math benchmark.

Long context
→ Grok 4.3
Basis: Context window

Granite 4.1 30B 131K tokens vs Grok 4.3 1M tokens.

Cost
→ Granite 4.1 30B
Basis: Input $/Mtok

Granite 4.1 30B $0/Mtok vs Grok 4.3 $1.25/Mtok input.

Changelog & releases

Granite 4.1 30B
Released 2026-04-29
Grok 4.3
Released 2026-04-30

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