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Grok 3 Reasoning on AIME 2025: score, rank and what it means

Grok 3 Reasoning scores 78.2 on AIME 2025, placing it #113 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 63.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 91.4.

Score
78.2
0–100 scale
Rank
#113
of 600
Percentile
81th
within the index
Benchmark avg
63.6
all models
Leader
91.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
13.2
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on AIME 2025, with Grok 3 Reasoning highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 91.4
GPT-5.2 Pro 91.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 90.6
GPT-5.2 90.6
o4 Reasoning 90.3
o4 Pro 89.9
Claude Opus 4.5 89.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 89.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 89.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 88.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
3 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
4 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
5 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5
6 o4 Pro OpenAI 1000000 $19.37 87.3
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
8 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
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 AIME 2025, Grok 3 Reasoning sits at #113 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 91.4, so the gap to the top is 13.2 points. The median model in this index scores 67.6, which puts Grok 3 Reasoning above the midpoint.

xAI models average 79.2 on this benchmark. Grok 3 Reasoning is 1.0 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average xAI model.

Among frontier models, the average is 84.9. Grok 3 Reasoning is 6.7 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 78.2 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 $16.07 per million input tokens, Grok 3 Reasoning is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on AIME 2025. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
MiniMax-M2 Chat MiniMax 200000 $5.02 80.2
Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI 128000 $5.41 81.7
Claude Haiku 4.5 Max Anthropic 200000 $15.98 83.8
Command A Pro Cohere 200000 $14.28 81.3
Grok 3 Reasoning xAI 200000 $16.07 82.9
ERNIE 4.5 Reasoning Baidu 1000000 $14.36 79.8
MiniMax-M2 MiniMax 200000 $5.19 80.6

Other benchmarks for Grok 3 Reasoning

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 84.5 72 88th
GPQA Diamond 77.3 101 83th
SWE-bench Verified 74.0 53 91th
HumanEval 88.5 65 89th
MATH-500 90.2 47 92th
LiveCodeBench 76.5 76 87th
IFEval 90.2 68 89th
TruthfulQA 83.4 97 84th
HellaSwag 89.7 95 84th
MMMU 79.4 68 89th
Arena Elo 1448.0 79 87th

FAQ

What score does Grok 3 Reasoning get on AIME 2025?

Grok 3 Reasoning scores 78.2 on AIME 2025 in this index. The benchmark average is 63.6 and the top score is 91.4.

How does Grok 3 Reasoning rank on AIME 2025?

It ranks #113 of 600 models, in the 81st percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 91.4.

Is Grok 3 Reasoning good at AIME 2025?

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 AIME 2025 score calculated?

AIME 2025 is a mathematics 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 Reasoning cost?

Grok 3 Reasoning costs $16.07 per million input tokens and $74.65 per million output tokens.

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