xAI's frontier model for long-running agents, coding, knowledge work, and visual projects
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Category | Score | Variant | Provenance | Source | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | intelligence | 46.3 | high-effort | independent | aa | Sep 21, 2026 |
| 46.4 | — | mirror | openrouter | Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Design Arena — 3d | preference | 1275 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 16, 2026 |
| 1271 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 16, 2026 | ||
| 1272 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 17, 2026 | ||
| 1267 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 20, 2026 | ||
| Design Arena — codecategories | preference | 1266 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 16, 2026 |
| 1269 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 20, 2026 | ||
| Design Arena — dataviz | preference | 1225 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 16, 2026 |
| 1226 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 17, 2026 | ||
| 1226 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 20, 2026 | ||
| Design Arena — gamedev | preference | 1311 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 16, 2026 |
| 1310 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 16, 2026 | ||
| 1313 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 20, 2026 | ||
| Design Arena — uicomponent | preference | 1266 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 16, 2026 |
| 1265 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 16, 2026 | ||
| 1268 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 20, 2026 | ||
| Design Arena — website | preference | 1253 | — | mirror | openrouter | Oct 20, 2026 |
| LMArena Text | preference | 1401 | xhigh-effort | crowd | lmarena | Oct 15, 2026 |
| LMArena Vision | preference | 1228 | xhigh-effort | crowd | lmarena | Oct 9, 2026 |
| LMArena WebDev | preference | 1640 | xhigh-effort | crowd | lmarena | Oct 13, 2026 |
| Median output speed | speed | 87 tok/s | high-effort | independent | aa | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Median time to first token | speed | 27.22s | high-effort | independent | aa | Oct 20, 2026 |
Includes index data from Artificial Analysis.
Providers
Live operational stats per hosting endpoint, via OpenRouter.
| Provider | Quant | Context | $/1M in · out | Uptime 24h | Latency | Throughput |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xAI | — | 500K | $2 · $6 | 99.86% | — | — |
| xAI | — | 500K | $4 · $12 | — | — | — |
| xAI | — | 500K | $2 · $6 | 99.31% | — | — |
| xAI | — | 500K | $4 · $12 | 100.00% | — | — |
| xAI | — | 500K | $2.2 · $6.6 | 98.67% | — | — |