Benchmark Almanac

Grok-3 mini

Grok-3 mini ranks first on Misguided Attention.

xAI Released 9 Apr 2025
52
Benchmarks with a score
1
Ranked first, out of five or more models
4
In the top three
xAI Apr 2025

Grok-3 mini

Closed weights

140.3 #122 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • SimpleQA Verified 20.2% #41 /56
  • GPQA Diamond 76.3% #97 /219
  • FrontierMath 5.86% #44 /70

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 10.8% #4 of 58 Official leaderboard
Fiction.LiveBench 66.7% #24 of 57 Epoch AI
LMArena (Elo) 1,364 #164 of 333 Official leaderboard
LOFT 83.1% #3 of 6 Model card
MMLU-Pro 78.9% #82 of 151 Model card
ECLeKTic 17.1% #20 of 35 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA 21.7% #38 of 59 Model card
FACTS Grounding 75% #22 of 34 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 3.30% #99 of 148 Official leaderboard
Lech Mazur Creative Writing 7.35 #32 of 44 Epoch AI
EQ-Bench 3 1,088 #57 of 78 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 20.2% #41 of 56 Official leaderboard
Phare 60% #51 of 62 Official leaderboard
Global MMLU Lite 67.3% #40 of 43 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Misguided Attention 73.7% #1 of 45 Official leaderboard
AIME 2024 95.8% #3 of 87 Model card
MATH Level 5 90.9% #16 of 94 Epoch AI
AIME 2025 90.8% #46 of 143 Model card
GPQA Diamond 76.3% #97 of 219 Epoch AI
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 77.8% #90 of 202 Epoch AI
PolyMath 32.3% #19 of 38 Official leaderboard
HMMT 2025 74.2% #29 of 53 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath 5.86% #44 of 70 Epoch AI
BRUMO 2025 85% #32 of 42 Official leaderboard
SMT 2025 78.8% #31 of 40 Official leaderboard
CMIMC 2025 68.1% #28 of 33 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 16.5% #79 of 92 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 0.42% #85 of 95 Official leaderboard
PutnamBench 0% #14 of 14 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LiveCodeBench 80.4% #11 of 73 Model card
BigCodeBench-Hard 31.1% #16 of 96 Official leaderboard
LiveCodeBench v6 66.7% #10 of 21 Official leaderboard
Aider Polyglot 49.3% #27 of 54 Epoch AI
LiveCodeBench v5 68.4% #11 of 21 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 42.6% #69 of 112 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Elimination Game 6 #6 of 56 Official leaderboard
Step Race 3 #16 of 59 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess 430 #45 of 124 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 849.3 #59 of 133 Official leaderboard
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) 53% #41 of 67 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
TaxEval v2 73% #54 of 129 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 83.1% #58 of 138 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v1 31.7% #22 of 47 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 61.1% #59 of 119 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
EgoSchema 74.3% #3 of 12 Model card
MMMU 69.4% #61 of 97 Model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Anthropic Red Team 99.5% #18 of 75 Official leaderboard
SimpleSafetyTests 99.3% #30 of 75 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 51.6% #39 of 71 Official leaderboard
HELM Safety 90.2 #46 of 75 Official leaderboard
AIR-Bench 2024 53.5% #60 of 82 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Capabilities 67.9 #24 of 60 Official leaderboard

xAI's models over time

xAI's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Grok 4.7 Grok 4.20 Grok 4 Fast Grok 3 Grok-2 50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Grok 4.7 Grok 4 Fast

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.