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Grok 3 Mini on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means

Grok 3 Mini scores 64.6 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #218 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Score
64.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#218
of 600
Percentile
64th
within the index
Benchmark avg
57.5
all models
Leader
81.7
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
17.1
points

Score distribution

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

GPT-5.2 Pro 81.7
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 81.1
GPT-5.2 Max 80.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 80.2
GPT-5.2 80.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 80.1
o4 Max 79.8
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 79.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 79.5
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 79.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
3 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
4 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2

What this score means

On SWE-bench Verified, Grok 3 Mini sits at #218 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 17.1 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts Grok 3 Mini above the midpoint.

xAI models average 70.8 on this benchmark. Grok 3 Mini is 6.2 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average xAI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 66.4. Grok 3 Mini is 1.8 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 64.6 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 SWE-bench Verified. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 3.1 Cerebras Cerebras 128000 $4.01 76.0
o4 Mini OpenAI 200000 $11.92 77.7
Claude Opus 4.5 Mini Anthropic 65536 $12.72 79.0
ERNIE 4.0 Turbo Baidu 65536 $12.00 78.0
Grok 3 Mini xAI 200000 $9.67 73.9
Llama 3.1 Cerebras Chat Cerebras 32768 $4.07 76.0
Sonar Reasoning Perplexity 200000 $11.48 76.2

Other benchmarks for Grok 3 Mini

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 77.7 253 58th
GPQA Diamond 70.3 254 58th
HumanEval 77.3 303 50th
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 SWE-bench Verified?

Grok 3 Mini scores 64.6 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.

How does Grok 3 Mini rank on SWE-bench Verified?

It ranks #218 of 600 models, in the 64th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Is Grok 3 Mini good at SWE-bench Verified?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the SWE-bench Verified score calculated?

SWE-bench Verified 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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