Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Grok 3
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and Grok 3 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 3 leads 46.2 to 26.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 55.6% for Grok 3.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 39.9 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 42 | 40 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 24.9% | 37.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1432 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 53.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | 29.5% |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1434 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | 138.33 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 36.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5.5% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Grok 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 55.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | 46.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1391 |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | 88.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Grok 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 75.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | 78.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | 65% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1421 |
| Confabulations | — | 14.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.8% |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Grok 3: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Grok 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1410 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1448 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1460 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1431 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1387 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 1373 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1416 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1417 |
Instruction Following Grok 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | 88.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1409 |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1439 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 58.3% |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1426 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1414 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | 84.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1425 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1186 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Grok 3?
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Grok 3 better for coding?
Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Grok 3 share?
29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.