Noometry

Model comparison

Grok-3 mini vs Llama 3.2 1B

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 19.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Grok-3 mini xAI

41.0

Rank #130 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 1B Meta

19.9

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3.2 1B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok-3 mini leads 46.3 to 7.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 77.8% for Grok-3 mini and 0.6% for Llama 3.2 1B.
  • Llama 3.2 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-3 miniLlama 3.2 1B
ProviderxAIMeta
Noometry Index41.019.9
Released2025-04-092024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—60K
Max output—54K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.027
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked3522

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Category by category

Coding Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 40.4 (#126), Llama 3.2 1B: 20.6 (#333)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Coding13801071
Aider Polyglot49.3%—
WeirdML42.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—8.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—11.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok-3 mini: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 14.5 (#142)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniLlama 3.2 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—10.8%
BALROG—6.6%

Reasoning Llama 3.2 1B leads

Grok-3 mini: 13.8 (#323), Llama 3.2 1B: 15.6 (#304)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Hard Prompts13741044
Epoch Capabilities Index140.35101.95
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
ARC-AGI-116.5%—
Chess Puzzles—0%

Math Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 40.3 (#78), Llama 3.2 1B: 9.7 (#308)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniLlama 3.2 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%0.6%
LMArena Math13861086
Omni-MATH31.8%—
MATH Level 590.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—

Knowledge Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 46.3 (#75), Llama 3.2 1B: 7.2 (#307)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniLlama 3.2 1B
GPQA Diamond76.3%23.9%
LMArena Expert13951007
MMLU-Pro79.9%—
Confabulations10.8%—
GPQA (HELM)67.5%—

Multilingual Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 48.3 (#141), Llama 3.2 1B: 23.9 (#287)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Non-English1352973
LMArena Chinese1387958
LMArena German13501014
LMArena Russian1352941
LMArena French1357—
LMArena Japanese1343—
LMArena Korean1336—
LMArena Spanish1379—

Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 78.7 (#8), Llama 3.2 1B: 52.6 (#285)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Instruction Following13561031
IFEval95.1%—

Long Context Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#142), Llama 3.2 1B: 31.9 (#269)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Longer Query13721050
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 52.7 (#163), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.4 (#305)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Text13701055
LMArena Creative Writing13421033
LMArena Multi-Turn13551030
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—200
WildBench65.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-3 mini better than Llama 3.2 1B?

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 19.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok-3 mini or Llama 3.2 1B better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 20.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Llama 3.2 1B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 1B has 22.

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