Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Grok Build 0.1
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 36.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok Build 0.1 leads 32.2 to 13.7.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Grok Build 0.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 36.4 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2026-04-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 40 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok Build 0.1 leads
Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Grok Build 0.1: 43.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| SciCode | — | 50.2% |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Grok Build 0.1: 22.7 (#129)
Reasoning Grok Build 0.1 leads
Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Grok Build 0.1: 32.2 (#77)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 9.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | — |
Math Not comparable
Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Not comparable
Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Not comparable
Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Grok Build 0.1?
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 36.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 3 or Grok Build 0.1 better for coding?
Grok Build 0.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.1 versus 41.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Grok Build 0.1 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Grok Build 0.1 has 3.