xAI

Grok 4.20 Beta

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Input Price
$2.00
/M tokens
Output Price
$6.00
/M tokens
Intelligence
65
/100
Arena Rank
#29
Overall
Coding Rank
#51
Arena
Context
256K
tokens

One9Founders Verdictgood

xAI's multi-agent model crashes into the top 10 on Arena (#8 overall). Grok 4.20 brings unique real-time X/Twitter data access and web search. At $3/M, it's priced like Sonnet but with a different personality — more unfiltered, more opinionated. The limited enterprise features are the main concern.

The maverick of frontier AI — great performance, questionable enterprise story.

Best For

  • real-time social media analysis
  • web-connected research agents
  • tasks benefiting from X/Twitter data

Not Great For

  • enterprise compliance workloads
  • healthcare/finance (limited certifications)
  • teams needing mature enterprise features

Startup Recommendation

Consumer-facing startups and social media analytics teams. Not for regulated industries.

Pricing Details

Input
$2.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$6.00
per 1M tokens
Cached Input
$0.05
per 1M tokens

Capabilities

Function Calling
-Structured Output
Vision
Web Search
-Code Execution
-MCP
-Audio Input
-Video Input
Reasoning
Streaming
-Batch API
-Computer Use

Chatbot Arena Rankings

Overall
#29
Coding
#51
Math
#52
Creative
#27

Security & Compliance

SOC 2 Type II
GDPR
HIPAA
Enterprise SSO
Audit Logs

Training data policy: Unclear

DPDP Act (India): Limited enterprise features. Not recommended for compliance-sensitive workloads.

Data residency: US

India Availability

Available but limited enterprise features for Indian users.