Model comparison
DeepSeek-V3 vs Grok-3 mini
Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeekSummary
- They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 4 categories and Grok-3 mini in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Grok-3 mini leads 42.1 to 32.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 37.8% for DeepSeek-V3 and 77.8% for Grok-3 mini.
- DeepSeek-V3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DeepSeek-V3 | Grok-3 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 41.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-26 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 164K | — |
| Max output | 164K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding DeepSeek-V3 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | 49.3% |
| WeirdML | 36.1% | 42.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1368 | 1379 |
| SciCode | 35.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 50% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 70.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 62.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek-V3: —, Grok-3 mini: —
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 49.6% | — |
Reasoning DeepSeek-V3 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.3% | 61.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1365 | 1375 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.94 | 140.35 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.4% |
| SimpleBench | 27.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 16.5% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 65.8% | — |
| DTBench | 64.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | — |
| LMCA | 15.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 87.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.1 | — |
| HellaSwag | 88.9% | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
| PIQA | 84.7% | — |
| WinoGrande | 85.2% | — |
Math Grok-3 mini leads
DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 37.8% | 77.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 40.3% | 31.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1373 | 1386 |
| MATH Level 5 | 75.5% | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | 5.9% |
| LiveBench Math | 73.5% | — |
Knowledge Grok-3 mini leads
DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 67.6% | 76.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3% | 79.9% |
| Confabulations | 26.1% | 10.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.8% | 67.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1351 | 1395 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 95.3% | — |
| MMLU | 87.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.9% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1358 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1391 | 1387 |
| LMArena French | 1385 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1374 | 1349 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1333 | 1342 |
| LMArena Korean | 1319 | 1335 |
| LMArena Russian | 1373 | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1358 | 1381 |
Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads
DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.2% | 95.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1345 | 1357 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.5% | — |
Long Context Grok-3 mini leads
DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 50% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1352 | 1372 |
Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V3 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1375 | 1370 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1364 | 1342 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77% | 73.5% |
| WildBench | 83% | 65.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1389 | 1355 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1472 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 49.1% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek-V3 better than Grok-3 mini?
Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is DeepSeek-V3 or Grok-3 mini better for coding?
DeepSeek-V3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and Grok-3 mini share?
33 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.