Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Grok 3

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 1 category and Grok 3 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 3 leads 38.0 to 24.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 32.4% for GPT-4.1 mini and 53.3% for Grok 3.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
ProviderOpenAIxAI
Noometry Index33.639.9
Released2025-04-142025-04-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.40—
Output $ / M tokens$1.60—
Results tracked4740

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Category by category

Coding Grok 3 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
Aider Polyglot32.4%53.3%
WeirdML37.6%37.2%
LMArena Coding13671432
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
SciCode40.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—
BALROG—29.5%

Reasoning Grok 3 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
ARC-AGI-20%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%61.3%
ARC-AGI-13.5%5.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts13491434
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01138.33
SimpleBench—36.1%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LMCA21.1%—

Math Grok 3 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%55.6%
Omni-MATH49.1%46.4%
LMArena Math13431391
MATH Level 587.3%88.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%3.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Grok 3 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
GPQA Diamond65.8%75.8%
MMLU-Pro78.3%78.8%
GPQA (HELM)61.4%65%
LMArena Expert13381421
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
Confabulations—14.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Grok 3: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Grok 3 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
LMArena Non-English13181410
LMArena Chinese13291448
LMArena French13581460
LMArena German13511431
LMArena Japanese12901387
LMArena Korean12981373
LMArena Russian13241416
LMArena Spanish13191417

Instruction Following Grok 3 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
IFEval90.4%88.4%
LMArena Instruction Following13331409

Long Context Grok 3 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%58.3%
LMArena Longer Query13441439

Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGrok 3
LMArena Text13401426
LMArena Creative Writing13001414
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11471186
WildBench83.8%84.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13541425
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Grok 3?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or Grok 3 better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Grok 3 share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.

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