Benchmark Almanac

Grok 3

Grok 3 places in the top three on 5 benchmarks.

xAI Released April 9th, 2025 Family Grok 3 The lab's model card Compare with others
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Benchmarks with a score
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
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In the top three
xAI Apr 2025

Grok 3

Closed weights Flagship

137.5 #133 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 142.0 #164 of 404
  • Agents' Last Exam 4.61% #31 /31
  • GPQA Diamond 75.8% #109 /229
  • SimpleQA Verified 39.3% #23 /56

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 2.10% #26 of 148 Official leaderboard
IFEval 88.4% #12 of 60 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 5.80% #23 of 104 Official leaderboard
ECLeKTic 29% #8 of 35 Official leaderboard
LOFT 83.3% #2 of 8 Lab model card
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 14.2% #17 of 58 Official leaderboard
FaithJudge 15.3% #11 of 37 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA 43.6% #18 of 60 Lab model card
MARS-Bench 51.2% #5 of 15 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,411 #118 of 335 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 39.3% #23 of 56 Official leaderboard
HUMAINE 29 #21 of 50 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Pro 79.9% #81 of 167 Lab model card
WritingBench 71.7 #24 of 45 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 1,165 #46 of 78 Official leaderboard
Fiction.LiveBench 58.3% #35 of 57 Fiction.live leaderboard, via Epoch AI
FACTS Grounding 75.7% #21 of 34 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 62.2 #78 of 120 Official leaderboard
SnorkelSpatial 12.7% #24 of 27 Official leaderboard
Phare 53.5% #62 of 62 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AIME 2024 93.3% #5 of 88 Lab model card
MATH Level 5 88.8% #19 of 94 Epoch AI run
AIME 2025 93.3% #31 of 143 Lab model card
Misguided Attention 55.1% #14 of 45 Official leaderboard
GPQA Main 65% #20 of 60 Official leaderboard
SnorkelGraph 64% #9 of 24 Official leaderboard
PolyMath 35.2% #16 of 38 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 75.8% #109 of 229 Epoch AI run
USAMO 2025 4.76% #5 of 10 Official leaderboard
IneqMath 3.50% #18 of 34 Official leaderboard
GSM8K Platinum Initial 268 98.9% #11 of 19 Official leaderboard
MATH-500 89.8% #23 of 38 Official leaderboard
PHYBench 21.2% #17 of 28 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 55.6% #132 of 212 Epoch AI run
SciArena 989 #22 of 34 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 36.1% #78 of 106 Official leaderboard
SnorkelSequences 39.2% #20 of 25 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath 3.79% #46 of 55 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 0% #48 of 55 Epoch AI run
ARC-AGI 5.50% #88 of 95 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 0% #94 of 98 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BigCodeBench-Hard 33.1% #7 of 96 Official leaderboard
Aider Polyglot 53.3% #19 of 46 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 37.2% #89 of 112 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Website 1,052 #124 of 151 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,043 #120 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 1,028 #117 of 139 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 1,032 #116 of 136 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 1,016 #123 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,028 #111 of 118 Official leaderboard
DesignArena SVG 973 #98 of 103 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Elimination Game 5 #15 of 56 Official leaderboard
TextQuests 15.4 #8 of 28 Official leaderboard
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) 63.3% #21 of 67 Official leaderboard
BALROG 29.5% #15 of 33 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 739.0 #62 of 133 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess -137 #86 of 123 Official leaderboard
Step Race 1 #43 of 59 Official leaderboard
SnorkelWordle 71% #14 of 19 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
TaxEval v2 75.9% #10 of 129 Official leaderboard
SnorkelUnderwrite 78% #6 of 27 Official leaderboard
HealthBench 54.3% #2 of 8 Official leaderboard
HealthBench Hard 22.6% #2 of 8 Official leaderboard
xbench-Marketing 46.5 #3 of 7 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 82.6% #67 of 138 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 59.7% #72 of 119 Official leaderboard
Finance Reasoning (Snorkel) 41.8% #13 of 21 Official leaderboard
FinQA (Snorkel OpenEnv environment) 65.9% #14 of 22 Official leaderboard
SnorkelFinance 65.9% #14 of 22 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v1 24.1% #30 of 47 Official leaderboard
xbench-Recruitment 47.1 #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam 4.61% #31 of 31 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MMMU 78% #12 of 136 Official leaderboard
EgoSchema 74.5% #2 of 12 Lab model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BaxBench 33.9% #13 of 34 Official leaderboard
Lakera B3 (Backbone Breaker Benchmark) 53% #21 of 35 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 49.3% #45 of 71 Official leaderboard
AIR-Bench 2024 51.3% #65 of 82 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 41% #72 of 90 Official leaderboard
SimpleSafetyTests 96.8% #60 of 75 Official leaderboard
HELM Safety 85.5 #63 of 75 Official leaderboard
KORA 18% #36 of 42 Official leaderboard
Anthropic Red Team 95.5% #69 of 75 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 33% #80 of 86 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Capabilities 72.7 #15 of 60 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 142.0, 4.5 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 8 capability results xAI reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 139.2 to 144.8. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 4 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap What differs
GPQA Diamond 84.6% GPQA (Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A (Diamond)) (cons@64; pass@1 = 80.2) 75.8% Epoch AI run +8.8 pts
LMArena (Elo) 1,402 Chatbot Arena Score (early Grok 3 'chocolate') 1,411 Leaderboard −9 The lab quotes the early chocolate model snapshot, while the board rates the later Grok 3 Preview release with style controls.
MMLU-Pro 79.9% MMLU-pro [Grok 3 Beta, non-reasoning table] 79.9% Leaderboard Same
MMMU 78% MMMU (Grok 3 Think; pass@1 = 76) 78% Leaderboard Same

xAI's models over time

xAI's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Grok 4.7 Grok 4 Fast Grok-2 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Grok 4.7 Grok 4 Fast

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.