GPT-5 Medium vs Grok-3 Mini: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
GPT-5 Medium is developed by OpenAI, while Grok-3 Mini comes from xAI. Grok-3 Mini was released in February 2025, and GPT-5 Medium followed 6 months later in August 2025.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. They split them evenly, 1 to 1. The widest gaps are on GPQA, where GPT-5 Medium scores 88.0% against 84.0%; AIME 2025, where Grok-3 Mini scores 91.0% against 89.0%. Averaged across everything we track, GPT-5 Medium sits at 88.5% and Grok-3 Mini at 87.8%.
Grok-3 Mini is the cheaper API at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, roughly 4 times cheaper than GPT-5 Medium at $1.25 and $10. GPT-5 Medium takes the larger context window at 400K tokens, compared with 128K for Grok-3 Mini. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | GPT-5 Medium | Grok-3 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Company | OpenAI | xAI |
| Release Date | August 6, 2025 | February 16, 2025 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 400K | 128K |
| Context (output) | 128K | 8K |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.25 | $0.30 |
| Output Price / 1M | $10.00 | $0.50 |
| Average Score | 88.5% | 87.8% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA | 88.0% | 84.0% |
| AIME 2025 | 89.0% | 91.0% |
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Verdict
GPT-5 Medium leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: GPT-5 Medium — 0.9, Grok-3 Mini — 0.9.
Grok-3 Mini is 14.1x cheaper: input $0.30/1M vs $1.25/1M tokens.
GPT-5 Medium supports a larger context: 400K vs 128K tokens.
GPT-5 Medium is newer: released 8/6/2025 vs 2/16/2025.
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