# Grok 3 vs Trinity Large Thinking

> Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-trinity-large-thinking
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 6 categories and Trinity Large Thinking in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Grok 3 leads 41.5 to 33.8.
- Trinity Large Thinking has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Arcee AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 150 | 180 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.80 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.5 (#113)
- Trinity Large Thinking: 33.8 (#238)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1381 |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1238 |
| SciCode | — | 36.1% |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 3: 30.2 (#69)
- Trinity Large Thinking: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.8 (#322)
- Trinity Large Thinking: 16.3 (#298)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | 1350 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 16.5% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.9% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 41.6% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 15.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.34 | — |

## Math

- Grok 3: 36.2 (#122)
- Trinity Large Thinking: 34.9 (#149)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1366 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.0 (#76)
- Trinity Large Thinking: 40.3 (#107)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | 6.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1420 | 1359 |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.5 (#81)
- Trinity Large Thinking: 46.4 (#155)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | 1325 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1372 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1374 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1356 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | 1312 |
| LMArena Korean | 1374 | 1304 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1338 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1356 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.2 (#69)
- Trinity Large Thinking: 70.7 (#157)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1334 |
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#187)
- Trinity Large Thinking: 41.2 (#139)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1355 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 56.0 (#136)
- Trinity Large Thinking: 54.0 (#152)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1321 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | 1342 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 3 better than Trinity Large Thinking?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 3 or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Trinity Large Thinking share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.