Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Grok 3 Mini is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 23 to 18. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Grok 3 Mini's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 74.1 against 36. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 37% to 66.2%. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while Grok 3 Mini is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Grok 3 Mini.
Pick Grok 3 Mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.
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Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
30
Grok 3 Mini
41.5
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Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
34.9
Grok 3 Mini
21.7
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
36
Grok 3 Mini
74.1
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Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
37
Grok 3 Mini
39.7
Grok 3 Mini is ahead overall, 23 to 18. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 37% and 66.2%.
Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 36. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 3 Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.5 versus 30. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Grok 3 Mini has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 39.7 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 34.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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