Grok 4.20 Beta1vsGemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

Grok 4.20 Beta1 leads the overall Podium Score by 2.0 points (74.0 vs 72.0).Category wins: Grok 4.20 Beta1 0 — 0 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview.Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is the cheaper pick ($5/M vs $15/M per 1M output tokens). Grok 4.20 Beta1 is faster (50 t/s vs 50 t/s).

Key VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis

Grok 4.20 Beta1 is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 74.0 (vs 72.0 for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview). Both models show closely matched capabilities across domain benchmarks.

Coding & Engineering
Comparable
Inference Speed
Grok 4.20 Beta1 (50 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview ($5/M/M)
MetricGrok 4.20 Beta1Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Podium Score74.0 ▲72.0
Arena Elo
Intelligence Index
Coding
Math
Reasoning
Agentic
Knowledge
Multimodal
Long-context
Output speed50 t/s50 t/s
Output price$15/M$5/M ▲
Context window128K128K
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Grok 4.20 Beta1 vs Claude Mythos · Grok 4.20 Beta1 vs Claude Fable 5 · Grok 4.20 Beta1 vs Kimi K3 · Grok 4.20 Beta1 vs Claude Opus 5
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