Model comparison
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Grok-3 mini
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Grok-3 mini in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 59.8 to 41.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 83.1% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 49.3% for Grok-3 mini.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | |
| Noometry Index | 45.0 | 41.2 |
| Released | 2025-03-25 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 78 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 83.1% | 49.3% |
| WeirdML | 54% | 42.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1452 | 1379 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57.6% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 53.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1227 | — |
| SciCode | 42.8% | — |
| GSO | 3.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 85.9% | — |
| CadEval | 64% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 785.52 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.51 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Grok-3 mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 32.6% | — |
| GDPval | 23.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 0.8% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 30.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 13.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | — |
| BALROG | 43.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 55.4% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 573.64 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | 0.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 70.3% | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 41% | 16.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1455 | 1375 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.32 | 140.35 |
| SimpleBench | 62.4% | — |
| CritPt | 2% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 20% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 89.8% | — |
| DTBench | 82.4% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 79.9% | — |
| LMCA | 34.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.3 | — |
| LiveBench | 82.3% | — |
Math Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84.7% | 77.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 41.6% | 31.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1450 | 1386 |
| MATH Level 5 | 95.9% | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 14.1% | 5.9% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 24.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 90.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.3% | 76.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 86.3% | 79.9% |
| Confabulations | 10.6% | 10.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 74.9% | 67.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1452 | 1395 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 21.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Grok-3 mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1263 | — |
| GeoBench | 86% | — |
| VPCT | 48% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1421 | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 44.7% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1451 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1507 | 1387 |
| LMArena French | 1472 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1487 | 1349 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1461 | 1342 |
| LMArena Korean | 1434 | 1335 |
| LMArena Russian | 1461 | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1473 | 1381 |
Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84% | 95.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1437 | 1357 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 80.6% | — |
Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 91.7% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1449 | 1372 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1458 | 1370 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1454 | 1342 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.8% | 73.5% |
| WildBench | 85.7% | 65.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1453 | 1355 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1421 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 67.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Grok-3 mini?
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Grok-3 mini better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok-3 mini share?
35 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.