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Model comparison

Grok 3 vs Llama 4 Maverick

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 38 shared benchmarks.

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 38 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 3 leads 55.8 to 38.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 53.3% for Grok 3 and 15.6% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 3Llama 4 Maverick
ProviderxAIMeta
Noometry Index39.930.9
Released2025-04-092025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked4054

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Category by category

Coding Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

BenchmarkGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
Aider Polyglot53.3%15.6%
WeirdML37.2%24.5%
LMArena Coding14321302
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
SciCode—33.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
ALE-Bench—172.97

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

BenchmarkGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
BALROG29.5%—

Reasoning Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

BenchmarkGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
ARC-AGI-20%0%
SimpleBench36.1%27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%55.9%
ARC-AGI-15.5%4.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14341281
Epoch Capabilities Index138.33132.2
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval—0.6%
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

BenchmarkGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202555.6%20.6%
Omni-MATH46.4%42.2%
LMArena Math13911299
MATH Level 588.7%73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)3.8%0.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

BenchmarkGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond75.8%67%
MMLU-Pro78.8%81%
Confabulations14.2%22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.8%8.2%
GPQA (HELM)65%65%
LMArena Expert14211259
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 3: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

BenchmarkGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

BenchmarkGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14101269
LMArena Chinese14481277
LMArena French14601259
LMArena German14311291
LMArena Japanese13871207
LMArena Korean13731203
LMArena Russian14161286
LMArena Spanish14171293

Instruction Following Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

BenchmarkGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
IFEval88.4%90.8%
LMArena Instruction Following14091267

Long Context Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

BenchmarkGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%46.2%
LMArena Longer Query14391280

Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

BenchmarkGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14261287
LMArena Creative Writing14141267
Short-Story Creative Writing76.4%62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1186860
WildBench84.9%80%
LMArena Multi-Turn14251289

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 3 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 3 or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Llama 4 Maverick share?

38 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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