Grok 3 Mini vs Nova Pro

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 knowledge, where it averages 74.1 against 39. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 66.2% to 40%. Nova Pro 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. Nova Pro only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority.

Agentic

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Coding

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

Nova Pro

33

41.5%
LiveCodeBench
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HumanEval
33%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Nova Pro

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

Nova Pro

37.9

21.7%
SimpleQA
39%
Coming soon
MuSR
37%

Knowledge

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

Nova Pro

39

66.2%
GPQA
40%
78.9%
MMLU-Pro
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MMLU
41%
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SuperGPQA
38%
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OpenBookQA
36%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

Nova Pro

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

Nova Pro

40

39.7%
AIME 2024
43%
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AIME 2023
41%
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AIME 2025
42%
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HMMT Feb 2023
37%
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HMMT Feb 2024
39%
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HMMT Feb 2025
38%
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BRUMO 2025
40%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 3 Mini or Nova Pro?

Grok 3 Mini is ahead overall, 23 to 20. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 66.2% and 40%.

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

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 39. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.5 versus 33. Nova Pro stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

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

Nova Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 40 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 Nova Pro?

Nova Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 37.9 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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