Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Grok-3 mini
Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Grok-3 mini in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok-3 mini leads 46.4 to 26.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 77.8% for Grok-3 mini.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 41.2 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 42 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 24.9% | 42.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1379 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 49.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Grok-3 mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1375 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | 140.35 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 16.5% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 77.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | 31.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1386 |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | 5.9% |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 76.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | 79.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | 67.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1395 |
| Confabulations | — | 10.8% |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Grok-3 mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1387 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1349 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1342 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 1335 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1381 |
Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | 95.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1357 |
Long Context Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1372 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
Writing & Preference Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1370 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1342 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | 65.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1355 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Grok-3 mini?
Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Grok-3 mini better for coding?
Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Grok-3 mini share?
28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.