DeepSeek R1
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DeepSeek R1 vs xAI: Grok 4
Compare DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek against xAI: Grok 4 by xAI, in 1 community votes, xai: grok 4 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 128K vs 256K, tested across 37 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, DeepSeek R1 or xAI: Grok 4?
xAI: Grok 4 is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 1 blind community votes on Rival. DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $3/M for xAI: Grok 4. Context windows: 128K vs 256K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 and xAI: Grok 4
DeepSeek R1 is made by deepseek while xAI: Grok 4 is from xai. DeepSeek R1 has a 128K token context window compared to xAI: Grok 4's 256K. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $3/M for xAI: Grok 4. In community voting, In 1 community votes, xAI: Grok 4 wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 1 community votes, xAI: Grok 4 wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 1+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Our Verdict
xAI: Grok 4Winner
DeepSeek R1Runner-up
Pick xAI: Grok 4. In 1 blind votes, xAI: Grok 4 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
DeepSeek R1 is 6.8x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
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Style Comparison
Similarity
94%
DeepSeek R1 uses 6.3x more transitions
DeepSeek R1
xAI: Grok 4
62%Vocabulary53%
15wSentence Length18w
0.52Hedging0.67
8.0Bold2.7
5.7Lists2.7
0.04Emoji0.07
0.62Headings0.86
0.28Transitions0.04
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