Grok 3 Mini vs o1-preview

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

o1-preview is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 43 to 23. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-preview's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 86.9 against 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 21.7% to 88%.

o1-preview is the reasoning model in the pair, while Grok 3 Mini is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. o1-preview gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Grok 3 Mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 3 Mini only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

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Coding

o1-preview

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

o1-preview

63.7

41.5%
LiveCodeBench
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HumanEval
86%
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SWE-bench Verified
41.3%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

o1-preview

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

o1-preview

86.9

21.7%
SimpleQA
88%
Coming soon
MuSR
86%

Knowledge

o1-preview

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

o1-preview

89

66.2%
GPQA
90%
78.9%
MMLU-Pro
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MMLU
92%
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SuperGPQA
88%
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OpenBookQA
86%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

o1-preview

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

o1-preview

93

39.7%
AIME 2024
96%
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AIME 2023
94%
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AIME 2025
95%
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HMMT Feb 2023
90%
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HMMT Feb 2024
92%
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HMMT Feb 2025
91%
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BRUMO 2025
93%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 3 Mini or o1-preview?

o1-preview is ahead overall, 43 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 21.7% and 88%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 3 Mini or o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 74.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 3 Mini or o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 63.7 versus 41.5. Grok 3 Mini stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, Grok 3 Mini or o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 93 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 o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 86.9 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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