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

Grok 3 scores 85.3 on HumanEval, placing it #109 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
85.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#109
of 600
Percentile
82th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
11.5
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HumanEval, with Grok 3 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 sits at #109 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 11.5 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts Grok 3 above the midpoint.

xAI models average 86.6 on this benchmark. Grok 3 is 1.3 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 is 3.1 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 85.3 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 $15.84 per million input tokens, Grok 3 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
GPT-5.2 Mini OpenAI 200000 $13.34 80.4
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Vision Anthropic 400000 $13.96 81.0
Llama 4 Maverick Base Meta AI 128000 $4.68 79.1
GLM-4.6 Instruct Zhipu AI 1000000 $5.15 80.4
Grok 3 xAI 128000 $15.84 82.8
Reka Core Turbo Reka AI 32768 $12.58 78.4
Magistral Mistral AI 200000 $4.75 79.8

Other benchmarks for Grok 3

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 81.9 122 80th
GPQA Diamond 80.0 57 91th
SWE-bench Verified 72.6 65 89th
MATH-500 88.7 63 90th
AIME 2025 81.1 73 88th
LiveCodeBench 74.3 103 83th
IFEval 91.0 55 91th
TruthfulQA 85.4 62 90th
HellaSwag 91.4 50 92th
MMMU 79.1 71 88th
Arena Elo 1447.2 83 86th

FAQ

What score does Grok 3 get on HumanEval?

Grok 3 scores 85.3 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does Grok 3 rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #109 of 600 models, in the 82nd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is Grok 3 good at HumanEval?

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 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 cost?

Grok 3 costs $15.84 per million input tokens and $70.31 per million output tokens.

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