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Grok 3 Mini on HumanEval: score, rank and what it means

Grok 3 Mini scores 77.3 on HumanEval, placing it #303 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
77.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#303
of 600
Percentile
50th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
19.5
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HumanEval, with Grok 3 Mini highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 96.8
Gemini 3 Pro Pro 95.0
o4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 93.8
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
GPT-5.2 Max 93.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 93.4
Grok 4 Max 93.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 93.2
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 92.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Gemini 3 Pro Pro Google DeepMind 200000 $19.80 87.3
3 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
4 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
5 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
8 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
9 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
10 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3

What this score means

On HumanEval, Grok 3 Mini sits at #303 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 19.5 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts Grok 3 Mini below the midpoint.

xAI models average 86.6 on this benchmark. Grok 3 Mini is 9.3 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average xAI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 82.2. Grok 3 Mini is 4.9 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 77.3 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $9.67 per million input tokens, Grok 3 Mini is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HumanEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Yi-Lightning Base 01.AI 16384 $3.31 72.7
Llama 3 Novita Novita AI 128000 $3.70 74.4
Sonar Pro Mini Perplexity 8192 $8.02 70.3
Auto Reasoning OpenRouter 65536 $8.39 71.5
Grok 3 Mini xAI 200000 $9.67 73.9
Llama 3 DeepInfra Chat DeepInfra 200000 $3.74 75.0
OLMo 2 Allen Institute for AI 65536 $2.99 71.0

Other benchmarks for Grok 3 Mini

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 77.7 253 58th
GPQA Diamond 70.3 254 58th
SWE-bench Verified 64.6 218 64th
MATH-500 75.3 320 47th
AIME 2025 67.4 307 49th
LiveCodeBench 64.2 312 48th
IFEval 82.1 272 55th
TruthfulQA 77.4 269 55th
HellaSwag 83.9 285 53th
MMMU 73.1 216 64th
Arena Elo 1380.3 272 55th

FAQ

What score does Grok 3 Mini get on HumanEval?

Grok 3 Mini scores 77.3 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does Grok 3 Mini rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #303 of 600 models, in the 50th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is Grok 3 Mini good at HumanEval?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the HumanEval score calculated?

HumanEval is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Grok 3 Mini cost?

Grok 3 Mini costs $9.67 per million input tokens and $44.41 per million output tokens.

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