Grok 4-1 Fast alternatives
Looking for an alternative to Grok 4-1 Fast? Here are the 6 closest llm provider / model options for AI coding, each ranked by how well it replaces Grok 4-1 Fast — with the concrete reason to switch.
Quick comparison
| Model | Input price | SWE-bench | Context window | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 4-1 Fast (you) | $0.20 | 34% | 2M+ | Fast |
| Codestral | $0.20 | 38% | 256K | Fast |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Free (self-hosted) | 46% | 1M+ | Fast |
| Deepseek | $0.27 | 42% | 128K | Standard |
| Gemma 4 31B | Free (self-hosted) | 32% | 256K | Standard |
| Gemini 3 Flash | $0.15 | 40% | 1M+ | Fast |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $0.44 | 62% | 1M+ | Slow/Reasoning |
The best Grok 4-1 Fast alternatives
Specialized code completion and generation, FIM-aware coding, fast IDE completions
Why consider it instead:
- Higher SWE-bench (38% vs 34%)
Latest open-weights from Meta, large context, self-hosted coding with vision
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0/1M input vs $0.2
- Higher SWE-bench (46% vs 34%)
Deepseek
Cheap high-quality coding, bulk classification, self-host for privacy
Why consider it instead:
- Higher SWE-bench (42% vs 34%)
Frontier open-weights on workstation, agentic coding, reasoning, local multimodal tasks
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0/1M input vs $0.2
Fast frontier intelligence, near real-time coding assistance, multimodal agentic loops
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0.15/1M input vs $0.2, ~1.3× less
- Higher SWE-bench (40% vs 34%)
Complex reasoning, agentic coding, hard debugging with long context
Why consider it instead:
- Higher SWE-bench (62% vs 34%)
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