Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Step 1o Turbo 202506
Grok 3 and Step 1o Turbo 202506 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.9 vs 39.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
StepFunSummary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 6 categories and Step 1o Turbo 202506 in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Step 1o Turbo 202506 leads 26.8 to 13.7.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | StepFun |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 39.7 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 40 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Step 1o Turbo 202506: 39.2 (#160)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1339 |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Step 1o Turbo 202506: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Step 1o Turbo 202506 leads
Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Step 1o Turbo 202506: 26.8 (#129)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | 1335 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | — |
Math Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Step 1o Turbo 202506: 36.6 (#164)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1391 | 1318 |
| 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 leads
Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Step 1o Turbo 202506: 36.1 (#176)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | 1308 |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok 3: —, Step 1o Turbo 202506: 36.1 (#80)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1186 |
Multilingual Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Step 1o Turbo 202506: 45.3 (#173)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1380 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1327 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | — |
Instruction Following Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Step 1o Turbo 202506: 69.2 (#176)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1310 |
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
Long Context Step 1o Turbo 202506 leads
Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Step 1o Turbo 202506: 41.0 (#146)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1348 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Step 1o Turbo 202506: 53.1 (#160)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Step 1o Turbo 202506 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1336 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1307 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | 1340 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Step 1o Turbo 202506?
Grok 3 and Step 1o Turbo 202506 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.9 vs 39.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Grok 3 or Step 1o Turbo 202506 better for coding?
Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 39.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Step 1o Turbo 202506 share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Step 1o Turbo 202506 has 14.