Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Ring-2.6-1T
Grok 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#157); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Ant Group (inclusionAI)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Ring-2.6-1T leads 26.1 to 13.7.
- Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Ant Group (inclusionAI) |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 36.9 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2026-05-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| 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: 41.9 (#115), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.7
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| SciCode | — | 42.4% |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 432.57 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Ring-2.6-1T leads
Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Ring-2.6-1T: 26.1
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 3.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | — |
Math Not comparable
Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena German | 1431 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Ring-2.6-1T?
Grok 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#157); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Grok 3 or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?
Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 40.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Ring-2.6-1T share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.