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Grok 3 Mini

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Strongest in Safe-prompt compliance (#7 of 82), weakest in Human preference (#164 of 354). Above par in 19 of 21 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 and ahead of O4 Mini and DeepSeek V4 Flash.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Coding53.1#58/179
Code generation56.8#9/20
Agentic coding51.3#77/173
Professional53#61/194
Legal53.7#58/173
Medical53.5#61/149
Finance53.3#72/162
Core abilities52.9#68/199
General intelligence54.2#56/178
Reasoning50.3#97/195
Mathematics55#56/152
Science52.2#70/122
Reasoning41.9#111/147
Safety52.7#107/329
Safe-prompt compliance59.5#7/82
Fairness56.9#50/292
Harm refusal49.9#154/292
Knowledge50.1#111/197
Academic knowledge50.2#77/123
Human preference53.2#164/354
Human preference53.2#164/354

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Grok 3 Mini, left for the other.

Command R+won 14 · lost 0
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 18 · lost 0
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 19 · lost 1
Command Awon 17 · lost 1
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 13 · lost 1
Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 13 · lost 1
GPT-4o miniwon 18 · lost 2
GPT-4.1 nanowon 18 · lost 2
Mistral Large 3won 15 · lost 2
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 14 · lost 2
Mistral Medium 3.5won 13 · lost 2
DeepSeek V3won 18 · lost 3
GPT-4 Turbowon 11 · lost 2
GPT-4owon 16 · lost 3
GPT OSS 20Bwon 14 · lost 3
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 12 · lost 3
Gemma 4 31Bwon 12 · lost 3
GPT-4.1 miniwon 16 · lost 4
Grok 3won 14 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 13 · lost 4
GLM-4.5won 12 · lost 4
GPT OSS 120Bwon 15 · lost 5
Kimi K2won 15 · lost 5
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 9 · lost 4
MiMo V2.5 Prowon 11 · lost 5
MiniMax M2.1won 10 · lost 5
GPT-5 nanowon 12 · lost 6
Claude Haiku 4.5won 12 · lost 6
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 14 · lost 7
GPT-5.4 nanowon 11 · lost 6
Kimi K2.6won 11 · lost 6
Mistral Large 4won 10 · lost 6
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 13 · lost 8
MiMo V2.5won 8 · lost 5
GLM-4.6won 11 · lost 7
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 9 · lost 6
O3 Miniwon 10 · lost 7
MiniMax M2.5won 10 · lost 7
Grok 4.3won 10 · lost 7
DeepSeek V3.2won 11 · lost 8
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 8 · lost 6
Inkling Smallwon 9 · lost 7
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 9 · lost 7
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litewon 9 · lost 7
GPT-5.4 miniwon 9 · lost 7
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litewon 9 · lost 7
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 10 · lost 8
GPT-4.1won 11 · lost 9
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 9 · lost 8
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 9 · lost 8
MiniMax M3won 10 · lost 9
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 10 · lost 9
O4 Miniwon 11 · lost 10
MiniMax M2.7won 8 · lost 8
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 9 · lost 9
Claude Sonnet 4won 10 · lost 11
Inklingwon 9 · lost 10
Grok 4 Fastwon 8 · lost 9
GPT-6 Lunawon 8 · lost 9
GLM-4.7won 7 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.1won 6 · lost 7
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 8 · lost 10
Qwen3.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 8
Kimi K2.5won 8 · lost 11
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 8 · lost 11
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 8 · lost 11
GLM-5.2won 8 · lost 11
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 8 · lost 11
GLM-5.1won 7 · lost 10
Qwen3 Maxwon 6 · lost 9
Grok 4won 8 · lost 12
DeepSeek R1won 8 · lost 12
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 7 · lost 11
Claude Opus 4won 8 · lost 13
Grok 4.20won 6 · lost 10
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 6 · lost 10
GLM-5won 6 · lost 11
Gemini 3 Flashwon 5 · lost 10
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 6 · lost 12
O1won 6 · lost 12
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 6 · lost 12
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 6 · lost 13
Grok 4.7won 4 · lost 12
GPT-6 Solwon 4 · lost 12
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 4 · lost 12
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 5 · lost 15
Gemini 3 Prowon 5 · lost 15
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 4 · lost 15
Claude Opus 4.6won 4 · lost 15
GPT-5 miniwon 4 · lost 16
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 4 · lost 17
GLM-5.3won 3 · lost 13
Claude Opus 4.5won 3 · lost 14
GPT-5.1won 3 · lost 15
GPT-5.2won 3 · lost 16
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 3 · lost 16
GPT-5.4won 3 · lost 16
Muse Sparkwon 2 · lost 11
Claude Haiku 5.5won 2 · lost 12
GPT-6.1 Solwon 2 · lost 12
GPT-6 Astrawon 2 · lost 13
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 2 · lost 13
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 2 · lost 13
Kimi K3won 2 · lost 14
Muse Spark 1.1won 2 · lost 15
Claude Sonnet 5won 2 · lost 16
Grok 4.6won 2 · lost 17
GPT-5won 2 · lost 18
O3won 2 · lost 19
Muse Spark 1.2won 1 · lost 13
Gemini 4 Argonwon 1 · lost 13
Claude Opus 5won 1 · lost 17
Grok 4.5won 1 · lost 18
GPT-5.6 Solwon 1 · lost 18
Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 18
Claude Sonnet 5.5won 0 · lost 14
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 16
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 16
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 17
GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 19
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 19

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

7 publications, 17 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
LMArena Text 1364
ARC-AGI-2 ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
ARC-AGI-2 0.4%
LiveCodeBench ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
LiveCodeBench 66.7%
Aider polyglot ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
Aider polyglot 49.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
Kagi LLM Benchmark 61.3%
Vals.ai ↗7 measuresread 2026-11-10
Vals · LegalBench 83.14%Vals · CorpFin 61.11%Vals · TaxEval 72.98%Vals · MedQA 90.1%Vals · GPQA Diamond 79.29%Vals · MMLU Pro 81.37%Vals · AIME 85%
HELM Safety ↗5 measuresread 2026-11-10
HELM Safety · HarmBench 57.2%HELM Safety · SimpleSafetyTests 99.3%HELM Safety · Anthropic Red Team 99.5%HELM Safety · BBQ 96.7%HELM Safety · XSTest 98.4%

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