Model comparison

GPT-5.5 Pro vs Grok-3 mini

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI

64.3

Rank #8 Confirmed

Grok-3 mini xAI

41.2

Rank #141 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Grok-3 mini in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 Pro leads 73.3 to 13.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 84.6% for GPT-5.5 Pro and 0.4% for Grok-3 mini.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 Pro and Grok-3 mini specifications
GPT-5.5 ProGrok-3 mini
ProviderOpenAIxAI
Noometry Index64.341.2
Released2026-04-232025-04-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$180—
Results tracked1435

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok-3 mini
Aider Polyglot—49.3%
WeirdML—42.6%
LMArena Coding—1379

Reasoning GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 73.3 (#10), Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok-3 mini
ARC-AGI-284.6%0.4%
ARC-AGI-196.5%16.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.07140.35
SimpleBench76.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—61.3%
CritPt30.6%—
Chess Puzzles64%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1375
DTBench96%—
LMCA53.9%—

Math GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 84.0 (#10), Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok-3 mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%77.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)52.4%5.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 478%—
Omni-MATH—31.8%
LMArena Math—1386
MATH Level 5—90.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)39.6%—

Knowledge GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 64.1 (#19), Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok-3 mini
GPQA Diamond93.9%76.3%
MMLU-Pro—79.9%
Confabulations—10.8%
GPQA (HELM)—67.5%
LMArena Expert—1395

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok-3 mini
LMArena Non-English—1352
LMArena Chinese—1387
LMArena French—1357
LMArena German—1349
LMArena Japanese—1342
LMArena Korean—1335
LMArena Russian—1353
LMArena Spanish—1381

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok-3 mini
IFEval—95.1%
LMArena Instruction Following—1357

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok-3 mini
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
LMArena Longer Query—1372

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProGrok-3 mini
LMArena Text—1370
LMArena Creative Writing—1342
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.5%
WildBench—65.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1355

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 Pro better than Grok-3 mini?

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 Pro and Grok-3 mini share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.

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