Grok 3 Mini vs Llama 4 Maverick

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

Llama 4 Maverick has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 26 versus 23. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Llama 4 Maverick's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 42.9 against 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 21.7% to 44%. 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 $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Llama 4 Maverick. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Llama 4 Maverick gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Grok 3 Mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 4 Maverick if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 3 Mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.

Agentic

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Coding

Llama 4 Maverick

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

Llama 4 Maverick

43.4

41.5%
LiveCodeBench
43.4%
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HumanEval
38%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Llama 4 Maverick

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

Llama 4 Maverick

42.9

21.7%
SimpleQA
44%
Coming soon
MuSR
42%

Knowledge

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

Llama 4 Maverick

67.4

66.2%
GPQA
69.8%
78.9%
MMLU-Pro
80.5%
Coming soon
MMLU
46%
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
43%
Coming soon
OpenBookQA
41%

Instruction Following

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Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Multilingual

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Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Mathematics

Llama 4 Maverick

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

Llama 4 Maverick

45

39.7%
AIME 2024
48%
Coming soon
AIME 2023
46%
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AIME 2025
47%
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2023
42%
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HMMT Feb 2024
44%
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2025
43%
Coming soon
BRUMO 2025
45%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 3 Mini or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is ahead overall, 26 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 21.7% and 44%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 3 Mini or Llama 4 Maverick?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 67.4. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 3 Mini or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.4 versus 41.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Grok 3 Mini or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 45 versus 39.7. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Grok 3 Mini or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 42.9 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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