# dots3-note Preview vs Grok 4.6

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for dots3-note Preview and Grok 4.6 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/dots3-note-preview-vs-grok-4-6
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: dots3-note Preview and Grok 4.6 share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- dots3-note Preview has the lower published output-token price.
- dots3-note Preview has the larger published context window at 512K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | dots3-note Preview | Grok 4.6 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Dots Studio | xAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 512K | 500K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 62.64 | 69.02 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 31 | 18 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $2.00 / $6.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 56.4 (Estimated · #28/117)
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: 68.1 (Supported · #8/117)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Grok 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Claw-Eval | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | 30.8% | 57.5% | Grok 4.6 |
| BrowseComp | 83.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 78.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | Coming soon | 26.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 78.3% | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | Coming soon | 13% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: 61.6 (Supported · #15/142)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Grok 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Codeforces | 3056.0 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 91.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 75.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | Coming soon | 27 fixes | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 65.9% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | Coming soon | 70.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | Coming soon | 61.3% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 87.0% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 25.3% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 95.6% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench40 | Coming soon | 41.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 72.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: 57.7 (#23/27)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Grok 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 81.4% | 67.1% | dots3-note Preview |
| ARC-AGI-1 | Coming soon | 87.00% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | Coming soon | 2.1% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 67.2 (Unranked · 10 rankable rows)
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Grok 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SimpleVQA | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 79.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 19.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | 60.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | 50.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 79.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 86.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: 69 (Supported · #14/168)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Grok 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 94.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 85.2 (#37/124)
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Grok 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Grok 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMOAnswerBench | 90.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between dots3-note Preview and Grok 4.6?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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