DeepSeek V3.1 vs Grok 3 Mini

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Grok 3 Mini has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 23 versus 20. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Grok 3 Mini's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 41.5 against 25. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2024, 66.3% to 39.7%. DeepSeek V3.1 does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 3 Mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3.1 only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority.

Agentic

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Coding

Grok 3 Mini

DeepSeek V3.1

25

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

25%
HumanEval
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LiveCodeBench
41.5%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek V3.1

29.9

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

31%
SimpleQA
21.7%
29%
MuSR
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Knowledge

Grok 3 Mini

DeepSeek V3.1

66.7

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

33%
MMLU
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74.9%
GPQA
66.2%
30%
SuperGPQA
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28%
OpenBookQA
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83.7%
MMLU-Pro
78.9%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

Grok 3 Mini

DeepSeek V3.1

32

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

33%
AIME 2023
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66.3%
AIME 2024
39.7%
49.8%
AIME 2025
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29%
HMMT Feb 2023
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31%
HMMT Feb 2024
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30%
HMMT Feb 2025
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32%
BRUMO 2025
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.1 or Grok 3 Mini?

Grok 3 Mini is ahead overall, 23 to 20. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 66.3% and 39.7%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.1 or Grok 3 Mini?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 66.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3.1 or Grok 3 Mini?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.5 versus 25. DeepSeek V3.1 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek V3.1 or Grok 3 Mini?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 39.7 versus 32. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3.1 or Grok 3 Mini?

DeepSeek V3.1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 29.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

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