Model comparison
GPT-5.1 vs Grok 3
GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 scores higher in 9 categories and Grok 3 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.1 leads 39.8 to 13.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 72.8% for GPT-5.1 and 5.5% for Grok 3.
Side by side
| GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 49.0 | 39.9 |
| Released | 2025-11-13 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 400K | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 63 | 40 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66), Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 60.8% | 37.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1454 | 1432 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 66% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 53.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1395 | — |
| SciCode | 43.3% | — |
| GSO | 13.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 72.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,192 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60), Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 47.6% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | — |
| BALROG | — | 29.5% |
| LMArena Search | 1199 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 1,473 | — |
Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58), Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 17.6% | 0% |
| SimpleBench | 53.2% | 36.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 72.8% | 5.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1457 | 1434 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 149.64 | 138.33 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| CritPt | 4.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 32% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 11.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 95.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| DTBench | 90.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 72.1% | — |
| LMCA | 43.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 78.8% | — |
Math GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51), Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.6% | 55.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | 46.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1447 | 1391 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 31% | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 12.5% | 0% |
| LiveBench Math | 94.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 88.7% |
Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71), Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.6% | 75.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 57.9% | 78.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.9% | 5.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.2% | 65% |
| LMArena Expert | 1470 | 1421 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 23.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 48% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 14.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19), Grok 3: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1250 | — |
| VPCT | 58.7% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1403 | — |
Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56), Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1431 | 1410 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1495 | 1448 |
| LMArena French | 1450 | 1460 |
| LMArena German | 1438 | 1431 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1453 | 1387 |
| LMArena Korean | 1401 | 1373 |
| LMArena Russian | 1435 | 1416 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | 1417 |
Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1), Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 93.5% | 88.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1443 | 1409 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 93.3% | — |
Long Context GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1447 | 1439 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 58.3% |
| CL-bench | 23.7% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 17.3% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55), Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1443 | 1426 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1427 | 1414 |
| WildBench | 86.3% | 84.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1450 | 1425 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1186 |
| LiveBench Language | 80.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5.1 better than Grok 3?
GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-5.1 or Grok 3 better for coding?
GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 41.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Grok 3 share?
32 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.