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ChatGPT vs Grok
Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 8 tasks where both are listed: ChatGPT is a tier higher in 5 of 8 shared tasks, Grok in 1, they share a tier in 1.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's chat assistant on web, desktop and mobile, built on its GPT model family.
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Kind
- Apps
- Runs
- Cloud
- Price
- Free tier · from $20/mo
- Skill level
- Beginner: works out of the box
- Open source
- No
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Grok
Chat assistant from SpaceXSI (xAI) on grok.com, iOS, Android and inside X, running the Grok model family.
- Vendor
- SpaceXSI (formerly xAI)
- Kind
- Apps
- Runs
- Cloud
- Price
- Free tier · from $8/mo
- Skill level
- Beginner: works out of the box
- Open source
- No
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Task by task
| Task | ChatGPT | Grok | Higher tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat & assistants Apps | Svia GPT-6.1 Sol · Cloud | Avia Grok 4.7 · Cloud | ChatGPT |
| Search & research Apps | A48 on DeepResearch Bench (RACE, GPT-5.5 judge) · Cloud | B41 on DeepResearch Bench (RACE, GPT-5.5 judge) · Cloud | ChatGPT |
| Writing Apps | Avia GPT-6.1 Sol · Cloud | Avia Grok 4.7 · Cloud | Same tier |
| Translation Apps | –No public result yet · Cloud | –No public result yet · Cloud | — |
| Image generation Apps | Svia GPT Image 2.5 · Cloud | Avia Grok Imagine Image 2.0 · Cloud | ChatGPT |
| Image editing Apps | Svia GPT Image 2.5 · Cloud | Avia Grok Imagine Image 2.0 · Cloud | ChatGPT |
| Image understanding Apps | Svia GPT-6.1 Sol · Cloud | Avia Grok 4.7 · Cloud | ChatGPT |
| Voice agents Apps | Avia GPT-Live 1 · Cloud | Svia Grok Voice 3.0 · Cloud | Grok |
A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.
Same benchmark, both results
| Benchmark | ChatGPT | Grok | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench (RACE, GPT-5.5 judge) RACE overall score (0-100; report quality judged by GPT-5.5 relative to reference reports on 100 research tasks), higher is better | 48 | 41 | 11 Oct 2026 |
| Mind2Web 2 (agentic search, private test set) Success rate: share of 130 long-horizon, time-varying agentic search tasks whose answer gets a perfect root score from the Agent-as-a-Judge rubric tree (leaderboard's default sort), higher is better | 28% | 27% | 19 Oct 2026 |