Noometry

Model comparison

Grok-3 mini vs Trinity Large Thinking

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Grok-3 mini xAI

41.2

Rank #141 Confirmed

Trinity Large Thinking Arcee AI

38.6

Rank #185 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 5 categories and Trinity Large Thinking in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Grok-3 mini leads 78.5 to 70.5.
  • Trinity Large Thinking has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-3 miniTrinity Large Thinking
ProviderxAIArcee AI
Noometry Index41.238.6
Released2025-04-092026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—80K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.80
Results tracked3524

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Category by category

Coding Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131), Trinity Large Thinking: 34.1 (#244)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Coding13791381
Aider Polyglot49.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1238
SciCode—36.1%
WeirdML42.6%—

Reasoning Trinity Large Thinking leads

Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.9 (#298)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Hard Prompts13751350
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—16.5%
ARC-AGI-116.5%—
CritPt—0.9%
Thematic Generalization—41.6%
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index140.35—

Math Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85), Trinity Large Thinking: 37.6 (#149)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Math13861366
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%—
Omni-MATH31.8%—
MATH Level 590.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—

Knowledge Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.9 (#113)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Expert13951360
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
MMLU-Pro79.9%—
Confabulations10.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.9%
GPQA (HELM)67.5%—

Multilingual Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145), Trinity Large Thinking: 46.2 (#160)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Non-English13521325
LMArena Chinese13871373
LMArena French13571374
LMArena German13491356
LMArena Japanese13421311
LMArena Korean13351306
LMArena Russian13531337
LMArena Spanish13811357

Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9), Trinity Large Thinking: 70.5 (#162)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Instruction Following13571334
IFEval95.1%—

Long Context Too close to call

Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147), Trinity Large Thinking: 41.3 (#144)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Longer Query13721355
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference Trinity Large Thinking leads

Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169), Trinity Large Thinking: 53.8 (#158)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Text13701340
LMArena Creative Writing13421320
LMArena Multi-Turn13551342
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
WildBench65.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-3 mini better than Trinity Large Thinking?

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok-3 mini or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Trinity Large Thinking share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.

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