Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 42 to 23. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 58.9 against 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 60% 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.
Grok 3 Mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens for Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Grok 3 Mini.
Pick Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 3 Mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
55
Grok 3 Mini
41.5
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
58.9
Grok 3 Mini
21.7
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
73.5
Grok 3 Mini
74.1
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Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
62
Grok 3 Mini
39.7
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is ahead overall, 42 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 60% and 21.7%.
Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 73.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 55 versus 41.5. Grok 3 Mini stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 39.7. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 58.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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