command-r vs grok-4-1-fast-reasoning

Capability for the money

Both are priced within 15% of each other, so capability decides it: grok-4-1-fast-reasoning leads by 77.4 points on coding (LiveCodeBench).

1. Coding

   writing and fixing code

   LiveCodeBench
   command-r4.8%

   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning82.2%

   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning +77.4

2. Hard reasoning

   graduate-level science and multi-step analysis

   GPQA Diamond
   command-r28.4%

   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning85.3%

   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning +56.9

Averaged over the benchmarks both models sat, grok-4-1-fast-reasoning returns 304.5 points of pass rate per dollar of blended price against 63.2 — the ratio that decides whether the dearer model earns its rate.

Each figure is a pass rate: the share of that test set the model answered correctly, measured by a third party rather than self-reported by the lab. Rows are different tests of different difficulty, so compare a model against the other model, not one row against the next. No published following instructions or tool use score for one of these models, so those lenses are omitted. And a benchmark is not your workload — it narrows the shortlist, it does not pick for you.