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VERIFIEDOct 132026
Is Grok 4.1 state of the art?
No.Best recorded rank is #3 in Long context.

As of Oct 13, 2026, Grok 4.1 from xAI. Best recorded rank is #3 in Long context. Last listed at #3 in Long context on 2026-01-09.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 13, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: low
General LLMNot SOTA · #5#5 · 0dReasoningNot SOTA · #5#5 · 0dCodingNot SOTA · #5#5 · 0dLong contextNot SOTA · #3#3 · 0d
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Last listed at #5 in General LLM on 2026-03-04.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall)
grok-4.1
1462.3139578788205 1458.3–1466.32026-03-04INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts)
grok-4.1
1476.680326183053 1470.8–1482.52026-01-29INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding)
grok-4.1
1496.1075109143028 1487.8–1504.42026-01-27INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query)
grok-4.1
1466.494753325052 1461.6–1471.42026-01-09INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
Reign history

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CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMNot SOTA · #5Last listed at #5 in General LLM on 2026-03-04.
ReasoningNot SOTA · #5Last listed at #5 in Reasoning on 2026-01-29.
CodingNot SOTA · #5Last listed at #5 in Coding on 2026-01-27.
Long contextNot SOTA · #3Last listed at #3 in Long context on 2026-01-09.