OpenRouter model

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20

Grok 4.20 is a reasoning model from SpaceXAI with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities. It combines the lowest hallucination rate on the market with strict prompt adherance, delivering...

Provider
OpenRouter
Availability
Available
Model ID
x-ai/grok-4.20
Snapshot
2026-10-07
Evaluation Verdict

xAI Grok 4.20 is a powerful frontier reasoning model (58.5% SWE-bench Verified, 76.0% AIME, 1375 Coding Elo), providing real-time data synthesis, live tool execution, and deep multi-hop deduction.

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Benchmarks & Agentic Accuracy

Verified primary research & developer preference metrics

Primary Sources Verified
SWE-bench Verified
58.5%
Multi-Agent ReasoningxAI System Card ↗
LiveCodeBench
54.2%
StandardLiveCodeBench ↗
LMSYS Coding Elo
1375Elo
Coding ArenaLMSYS Arena ↗
AIME 2024 / 2025
76%
StandardxAI System Card ↗
Pricing ($ / 1M tokens)
$2/ $8
$0.75 cached readStandard API Pricing

What This Means in Real Software Development

  • 58.5% on SWE-bench Verified with strong multi-turn tool interaction.
  • 76.0% on AIME 2024 and 71.0% on GPQA Diamond demonstrate advanced mathematical reasoning.
  • Operates at ~65 TPS with native support for multi-agent DAG task programs.
  • Available via xAI API and OpenRouter with full context retrieval.

Swarm Multi-Agent Topology

Tier 1: Frontier Systems SpecialistRole: Primary / Planner

Best Paired With: Gemini 3.8 Flash for subagent execution

High deductive capability and broad context synthesis make it effective for complex planning.

Git Worktree Isolation Advantage:

Supervises worktree tasks and reviews git diffs before merging.

What Developers & Practitioners Are Saying

Real-world field observations, production strengths, and developer consensus

Field Consensus

"xAI's frontier model featuring massive compute scale, unfiltered technical reasoning, and strong real-time data synthesis."

Verified Real-World Strengths

  • High reasoning capacity on complex systems and hardware architecture
  • Direct, no-nonsense technical responses with minimal refusal friction
  • Strong mathematical foundation (76.5% AIME)

Production Caveats & Gaps

  • Higher latency on reasoning queries
  • API availability and tooling ecosystem still maturing compared to OpenAI/Anthropic
Benchmark Reality Check

What the benchmark tests: Measures high-compute reasoning, scientific computation, and uncensored technical knowledge.

Production caveat: Ensure strict output formatting schemas when parsing structured JSON outputs.

Primary Sources & Methodology Citations

Head-to-Head Frontier Comparisons: SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 vs Rivals

Standardized, side-by-side benchmark & economics comparison against peer models

Flagship Comparative Matrix
ModelRole / TierSWE-benchLiveCodeBenchLMSYS EloAIMEInput / Output
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20OpenRouterCurrent
Tier 1: Frontier Systems Specialist58.5%54.2%137576%$2 / $8
Tier 1: Master Principal Architect79.5%70.2%145092%$15 / $75
Tier 1: Autonomous Chief Architect82%84.5%147097%$6 / $24
Tier 1: High-Speed Frontier Coder74.8%66.2%1420—$1.2 / $6
Tier 1: Algorithmic Reasoning Specialist73.6%64.9%1408—$3 / $15

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 model overview

SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 is listed in the public Swarm catalog through OpenRouter. This page summarizes the verified catalog fields used by Swarm without claiming real-time access for every provider account.

Provider
OpenRouter
Family
OpenRouter
Context window
2M tokens
Thinking support
off
Availability status
Available
Catalog ID
openrouter/x-ai/grok-4.20
  • File input
  • Image input
  • Text input
  • Text output
  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Structured output
  • JSON

Run SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 in Swarm

Verified CLI workflow & multi-agent architecture

Quickstart Guide →
bash — swarm run
$swarm ctl model set --provider openrouter --model openrouter/x-ai/grok-4.20

# Or switch interactively inside the terminal TUI:

>/models

Subagent Role Matrix

Assign SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 to specialized system roles in ~/.swarm/config.json:

  • Primary / Planner: Orchestrates full task DAGs and multi-stage pipelines.
  • Coder Subagent: Generates code and unit tests inside private Git worktrees.
  • Finder Subagent: Performs read-only code search, symbol discovery, and mapping.
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