Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 32.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Grok 3 leads 30.2 to 21.9.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 32.8 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 40 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 41.5 (#113), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.2 (#130)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| SciCode | — | 42.7% |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 30.2 (#69), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#127)
Reasoning Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads
Grok 3: 13.8 (#322), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.7 (#189)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.34 | — |
Math Not comparable
Grok 3: 36.2 (#122), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Grok 3: 46.0 (#76), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1420 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok 3: 52.5 (#81), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena German | 1431 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1374 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Grok 3: 75.2 (#69), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok 3: 38.7 (#187), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Grok 3: 56.0 (#136), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview?
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 32.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 3 or Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better for coding?
Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 40.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3.