# 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.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-ring-2-6-1t
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## 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.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Ant Group (inclusionAI) |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 36.9 |
| Rank | 157 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- 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

- Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)
- Ring-2.6-1T: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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 | — |

## FAQ

### 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.