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Grok 3 Mini

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Strongest in Code generation (#25 of 77, on 1 of its 2 boards), weakest in Human preference (#154 of 342). Above par in 15 of 16 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.7 and ahead of MiniMax M2.5 and GPT-6 Luna.

§ 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.

Professional53.1#49/168
Legal53.8#47/151
Medical53.5#55/140
Finance53.3#66/151
Coding52.9#50/165
Code generation55.6#25/77
Core abilities52.9#62/204
General intelligence54.2#65/204
Knowledge50.2#84/138
Academic knowledge50.2#77/123
Reasoning50.6#87/178
Mathematics55#51/140
Science52.2#70/122
Reasoning42.8#99/140
Human preference53.5#154/342
Human preference53.5#154/342

§ 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 Pluswon 10 · lost 0
Mistral Largewon 10 · lost 0
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 10 · lost 0
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 11 · lost 0
Mistral Smallwon 12 · lost 0
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 14 · lost 0
GPT-4o Miniwon 15 · lost 0
GPT-4.1 Nanowon 15 · lost 0
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 15 · lost 0
GPT-4owon 13 · lost 1
Command Awon 13 · lost 1
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 11 · lost 1
Grok 2won 10 · lost 1
Qwen3.6 27Bwon 9 · lost 1
DeepSeek V3won 14 · lost 2
GPT OSS 120Bwon 13 · lost 2
GPT-4.1 Miniwon 13 · lost 2
Mistral Large 3won 13 · lost 2
Mistral Medium 3.5won 12 · lost 2
GPT OSS 20Bwon 11 · lost 2
Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 11 · lost 2
Claude Haiku 4.5won 12 · lost 3
Kimi K2won 12 · lost 3
GPT-5 Nanowon 11 · lost 3
GPT-5.4 Nanowon 12 · lost 4
O3 Miniwon 10 · lost 4
DeepSeek V4won 7 · lost 3
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 9 · lost 4
GLM-4.5won 9 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 11 · lost 5
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 11 · lost 5
Grok 4.3won 11 · lost 5
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 11 · lost 5
Gemma 4 31Bwon 8 · lost 4
GPT-5.4 Miniwon 10 · lost 5
Grok 3won 9 · lost 5
Mimo V2.5 Prowon 9 · lost 5
Gemini 3.5 Flash Litewon 10 · lost 6
Nemotron 3 Ultrawon 8 · lost 5
MiniMax M2.1won 8 · lost 5
GPT-4.1won 9 · lost 6
MiniMax M2.7won 7 · lost 5
Mimo V2.5won 7 · lost 5
Claude Sonnet 4won 9 · lost 7
Inklingwon 9 · lost 7
Kimi K2.6won 9 · lost 7
GPT-6 Lunawon 7 · lost 6
MiniMax M2.5won 8 · lost 7
GLM-4.6won 7 · lost 7
O4 Miniwon 8 · lost 8
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 8 · lost 8
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 8 · lost 8
MiniMax M3won 8 · lost 8
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 8 · lost 8
DeepSeek V3.2won 7 · lost 8
Inkling Smallwon 6 · lost 7
Claude Opus 4won 7 · lost 9
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 7 · lost 9
GLM-5.2won 7 · lost 9
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 7 · lost 9
Gemini 3.1 Flash Litewon 6 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.1won 5 · lost 7
Grok 4 Fastwon 6 · lost 9
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 5 · lost 8
Grok 4.20won 5 · lost 8
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 5 · lost 8
GLM-4.7won 5 · lost 8
GLM-5.1won 5 · lost 8
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 6 · lost 10
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 10
Qwen3 Maxwon 5 · lost 9
Qwen3.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 8
DeepSeek R1won 5 · lost 10
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 5 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 5 · lost 11
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 5 · lost 11
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 4 · lost 9
O1won 4 · lost 9
Grok 4won 4 · lost 11
Kimi K2.5won 4 · lost 11
GLM-5won 4 · lost 11
Muse Spark 1.1won 4 · lost 12
Grok 4.7won 3 · lost 10
GPT-6 Solwon 3 · lost 10
Gemini 3 Flashwon 3 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 3 · lost 12
GPT-5.2won 3 · lost 13
Grok 4.5won 3 · lost 13
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 3 · lost 13
Claude Opus 4.5won 3 · lost 13
GPT-5.4won 3 · lost 13
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 3 · lost 13
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 3 · lost 13
Claude Opus 4.6won 3 · lost 13
Gemini 3 Prowon 2 · lost 13
Muse Spark 1.2won 2 · lost 13
Grok 4.6won 2 · lost 14
Claude Sonnet 5won 2 · lost 14
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 2 · lost 14
GLM-5.3won 2 · lost 14
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 2 · lost 14
Qwen 3.5 Pluswon 1 · lost 9
Mimo V2.6 Prowon 1 · lost 9
Muse Sparkwon 1 · lost 11
GPT-5.1won 1 · lost 12
GPT-6 Astrawon 1 · lost 12
GPT-5 Miniwon 1 · lost 14
GPT-5won 1 · lost 14
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 15
Kimi K3won 1 · lost 15
Muse Spark 1.3won 0 · lost 12
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 13
O3won 0 · lost 16
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 16
GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 16
GPT-5.6 Solwon 0 · lost 16
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 16
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 16
Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 16
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 16

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

5 publications, 11 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
LMArena Text 1364
ARC-AGI-2 ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
ARC-AGI-2 0.4%
LiveCodeBench ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
LiveCodeBench 66.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
Kagi LLM Benchmark 61.3%
Vals.ai ↗7 measuresread 2026-09-26
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%

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