# Grok 3 vs Llama 4 Maverick

> Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-llama-4-maverick
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 38

## 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 56.0 to 39.0.
- 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.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 30.6 |
| Rank | 150 | 276 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.19 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.65 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.5 (#113)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | 15.6% |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | 24.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1302 |
| 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: 30.2 (#69)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.3% |
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.8 (#322)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | 0% |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | 27.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | 55.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | 4.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | 1281 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.34 | 132.2 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| DTBench | — | 61.9% |
| LMCA | — | 15.9% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |

## Math

- Grok 3: 36.2 (#122)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 20.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1299 |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | 0.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.0 (#76)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 67% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | 81% |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | 22.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | 8.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | 65% |
| LMArena Expert | 1420 | 1259 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.7% |

## Multimodal

- Grok 3: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.5 (#81)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1277 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | 1374 | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1293 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.2 (#69)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | 90.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1267 |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#187)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | 46.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1280 |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 56.0 (#136)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1266 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | 62% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | 860 |
| WildBench | 84.9% | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | 1289 |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 3 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 3 or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 26.3 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.