Model comparison

Grok 3 vs Trinity Large Thinking

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Grok 3 xAI

39.6

Rank #150 Confirmed

Trinity Large Thinking Arcee AI

38.1

Rank #180 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 6 categories and Trinity Large Thinking in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Grok 3 leads 41.5 to 33.8.
  • Trinity Large Thinking has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 3 and Trinity Large Thinking specifications
Grok 3Trinity Large Thinking
ProviderxAIArcee AI
Noometry Index39.638.1
Released2025-04-092026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—80K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.80
Results tracked4024

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Category by category

Coding Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 41.5 (#113), Trinity Large Thinking: 33.8 (#238)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Coding14321381
Aider Polyglot53.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1238
SciCode—36.1%
WeirdML37.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 3: 30.2 (#69), Trinity Large Thinking: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Trinity Large Thinking
BALROG29.5%—

Reasoning Trinity Large Thinking leads

Grok 3: 13.8 (#322), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.3 (#298)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Hard Prompts14331350
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench36.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—16.5%
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
CritPt—0.9%
Thematic Generalization—41.6%
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index138.34—

Math Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 36.2 (#122), Trinity Large Thinking: 34.9 (#149)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Math13901366
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202555.6%—
Omni-MATH46.4%—
MATH Level 588.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)3.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 46.0 (#76), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.3 (#107)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Trinity Large Thinking
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.8%6.9%
LMArena Expert14201359
GPQA Diamond75.8%—
MMLU-Pro78.8%—
Confabulations14.2%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—

Multilingual Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 52.5 (#81), Trinity Large Thinking: 46.4 (#155)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Non-English14111325
LMArena Chinese14481372
LMArena French14601374
LMArena German14311356
LMArena Japanese13891312
LMArena Korean13741304
LMArena Russian14161338
LMArena Spanish14171356

Instruction Following Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 75.2 (#69), Trinity Large Thinking: 70.7 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Instruction Following14091334
IFEval88.4%—

Long Context Trinity Large Thinking leads

Grok 3: 38.7 (#187), Trinity Large Thinking: 41.2 (#139)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Longer Query14391355
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—

Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 56.0 (#136), Trinity Large Thinking: 54.0 (#152)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Trinity Large Thinking
LMArena Text14261340
LMArena Creative Writing14141321
LMArena Multi-Turn14241342
Short-Story Creative Writing76.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1186—
WildBench84.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 3 better than Trinity Large Thinking?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 3 or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Trinity Large Thinking share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.

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