Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Grok 3 Mini

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

Gemini 2.5 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 38 to 23. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 2.5 Pro's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 79.9 against 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 81% to 21.7%. Grok 3 Mini does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.25 input / $5.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.30 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens for Grok 3 Mini. That is roughly 10.0x on output cost alone. Gemini 2.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Grok 3 Mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 3 Mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

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Coding

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro

69.4

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

75%
HumanEval
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63.8%
SWE-bench Verified
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LiveCodeBench
41.5%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro

79.9

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

81%
SimpleQA
21.7%
79%
MuSR
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Knowledge

Grok 3 Mini

Gemini 2.5 Pro

53.3

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

83%
MMLU
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83%
GPQA
66.2%
81%
SuperGPQA
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79%
OpenBookQA
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18.8%
HLE
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MMLU-Pro
78.9%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro

83

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

84%
AIME 2023
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86%
AIME 2024
39.7%
85%
AIME 2025
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80%
HMMT Feb 2023
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82%
HMMT Feb 2024
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81%
HMMT Feb 2025
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83%
BRUMO 2025
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Grok 3 Mini?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is ahead overall, 38 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 81% and 21.7%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Grok 3 Mini?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 53.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Grok 3 Mini?

Gemini 2.5 Pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 69.4 versus 41.5. Grok 3 Mini stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Grok 3 Mini?

Gemini 2.5 Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 39.7. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Grok 3 Mini?

Gemini 2.5 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 79.9 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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