# GPT-4.1 mini vs Grok-3 mini

> Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-1-mini-vs-grok-3-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 33

## Summary

- They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 0 categories and Grok-3 mini in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Grok-3 mini leads 42.1 to 24.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini and 77.8% for Grok-3 mini.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 33.6 | 41.2 |
| Rank | 240 | 141 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $0.40 | — |
| Output $/M | $1.60 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)
- Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 32.4% | 49.3% |
| WeirdML | 37.6% | 42.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | 1379 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 23.9% | — |
| SciCode | 40.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| CadEval | 16% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)
- Grok-3 mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 50.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)
- Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | 0.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 48.6% | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 3.5% | 16.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1349 | 1375 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.01 | 140.35 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 7% | — |
| DTBench | 68.8% | — |
| LMCA | 21.1% | — |

## Math

- GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)
- Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 44.7% | 77.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 49.1% | 31.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1343 | 1386 |
| MATH Level 5 | 87.3% | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | 5.9% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 6.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)
- Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.8% | 76.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.3% | 79.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 61.4% | 67.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1338 | 1395 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.7% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 10.8% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)
- Grok-3 mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1181 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)
- Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1318 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1329 | 1387 |
| LMArena French | 1358 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1351 | 1349 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1290 | 1342 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 1335 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1319 | 1381 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)
- Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 90.4% | 95.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1333 | 1357 |

## Long Context

- GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)
- Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1372 |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)
- Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1340 | 1370 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1300 | 1342 |
| WildBench | 83.8% | 65.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1354 | 1355 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.5% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1147 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Grok-3 mini?

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-4.1 mini or Grok-3 mini better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Grok-3 mini share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.