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Grok 3 Turbo on MATH-500: score, rank and what it means

Grok 3 Turbo scores 85.6 on MATH-500, placing it #99 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 72.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.7.

Score
85.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#99
of 600
Percentile
84th
within the index
Benchmark avg
72.5
all models
Leader
96.7
GPT-5.2 Max
Gap to leader
11.1
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on MATH-500, with Grok 3 Turbo highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Max 96.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.1 Pro 95.1
o4 Reasoning 94.8
Grok 4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 94.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.2
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning 93.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Turbo 93.2

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
2 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
3 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
4 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5
5 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
6 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning Google DeepMind 200000 $19.69 87.5
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Turbo Anthropic 2000000 $19.57 85.7

What this score means

On MATH-500, Grok 3 Turbo sits at #99 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.7, so the gap to the top is 11.1 points. The median model in this index scores 76.0, which puts Grok 3 Turbo above the midpoint.

xAI models average 86.3 on this benchmark. Grok 3 Turbo is 0.7 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average xAI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 81.3. Grok 3 Turbo is 4.3 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 85.6 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 $15.97 per million input tokens, Grok 3 Turbo is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MATH-500. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 128000 $15.11 81.4
Command A Turbo Cohere 32768 $13.53 79.8
Command A Max Cohere 400000 $14.28 79.9
Reka Core Max Reka AI 128000 $13.41 79.3
Grok 3 Turbo xAI 128000 $15.97 83.1
Doubao 1.5 Pro Pro ByteDance 128000 $14.10 80.2
Magistral Mistral AI 200000 $4.75 79.8

Other benchmarks for Grok 3 Turbo

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 83.7 88 85th
GPQA Diamond 79.1 71 88th
SWE-bench Verified 71.4 88 85th
HumanEval 86.8 93 85th
AIME 2025 83.1 53 91th
LiveCodeBench 76.4 78 87th
IFEval 90.7 61 90th
TruthfulQA 86.0 51 92th
HellaSwag 90.2 81 87th
MMMU 81.3 41 93th
Arena Elo 1438.4 101 83th

FAQ

What score does Grok 3 Turbo get on MATH-500?

Grok 3 Turbo scores 85.6 on MATH-500 in this index. The benchmark average is 72.5 and the top score is 96.7.

How does Grok 3 Turbo rank on MATH-500?

It ranks #99 of 600 models, in the 84th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.7.

Is Grok 3 Turbo good at MATH-500?

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 MATH-500 score calculated?

MATH-500 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 Turbo cost?

Grok 3 Turbo costs $15.97 per million input tokens and $70.13 per million output tokens.

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