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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch) vs xAI: Grok Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch) xAI: Grok Latest
Vendoropenai~x-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score71.15.8
Input Price$1.00/M$1.60/M
Output Price$6.00/M$4.80/M
Context Window1,050,000500,000
Max Output128,000450,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index69.411.4

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)xAI: Grok Latest
SQL Generation 141 134
Code Review 145 134
Code Completion 120 118
Code Refactoring 147 137
Bug Fixing 149 138
Unit Test Generation 132 125
Code Documentation 136 131
Regex Writing 125 119
CI/CD Pipelines 128 121
Frontend Component Design 130 123
Data Analysis 134 125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 133
ETL Scripting 137 129
JSON Extraction 122 122
Bulk Data Labeling 119 120
OCR / Document Parsing 134 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 131
Long-Document Summarization 148 139
Short-Form Summarization 118 115
Blog Post Writing 129 122

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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