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xAI Grok 3 Mini
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RANKED #208 OF 318 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #312 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.8 · 106 VOICES ·
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Fast Grok model for responsive chat, reasoning, and tool-assisted work
HAPPY9.5
5 mentions
SAD5.5
7 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 85 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. xAI hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
xAI Grok 3 Mini is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.2
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeekPick it for blazing fast coding and general tasks at a fraction of the cost.💸 COST EFFICIENT⚡ FAST💻 STRONG AT CODE15.8k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.8DeepSeek ReasonerDeepSeekPick it when you need deep reasoning and complex logic problem solving.💸 COST EFFICIENT🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE4.2k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about xAI Grok 3 Mini yet to call it. We found 106 posts but people did not say much either way.
105 POSTS · 1 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · DEV.TO · LEMMY · X
PEOPLE LOVE
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PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
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Claude Opus 5.5> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-09-07 · 277 UPVOTESTIL why older models were PEAK
TIL why older models were PEAK
- REDDIT · 2025-05-29 · 197 UPVOTESDeepSeek R1 0528 just dropped today and the benchmarks are looking seriously impressive
DeepSeek R1 0528 just dropped today and the benchmarks are looking seriously impressive
- REDDIT · 2026-07-09 · 129 UPVOTESThe cost of a given X level of AI intelligence is cut in half every 2-4 months.
The cost of a given X level of AI intelligence is cut in half every 2-4 months.
- REDDIT · 2025-04-10 · 122 UPVOTESGrok 3 and Grok 3 Mini now available
Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini now available
- REDDIT · 2025-04-11 · 110 UPVOTESEpoch AI "Grok-3 appears to be the most capable non-reasoning model across these benchmarks, often competitive with reasoning models.…
Epoch AI "Grok-3 appears to be the most capable non-reasoning model across these benchmarks, often competitive with reasoning models. Grok-3 mini is also strong, and with high reasoning effort outperforms Grok-3 at math."
- REDDIT · 2025-02-19 · 90 UPVOTESxAI releases a Grok 3 blogpost with more benchmark results and it doesn't look very good
xAI releases a Grok 3 blogpost with more benchmark results and it doesn't look very good
- REDDIT · 2025-05-29 · 83 UPVOTESDeepSeek R1 0528 just dropped today and the benchmarks are looking seriously impressive
DeepSeek R1 0528 just dropped today and the benchmarks are looking seriously impressive
- REDDIT · 2025-04-20 · 70 UPVOTESMathArena AIME & HMMT updated for o4-mini, o3, Grok 3 Mini
MathArena AIME & HMMT updated for o4-mini, o3, Grok 3 Mini
- REDDIT · 2025-05-29 · 49 UPVOTESDeepSeek R1 0528 just dropped today and the benchmarks are looking seriously impressive
DeepSeek R1 0528 just dropped today and the benchmarks are looking seriously impressive
- REDDIT · 2025-04-24 · 40 UPVOTESOpenAI-MRCR results for Grok 3 compared to others
OpenAI-MRCR results for Grok 3 compared to others
- REDDIT · 2025-04-11 · 39 UPVOTESA Closer Look at Grok 3's LiveBench score
A Closer Look at Grok 3's LiveBench score
- REDDIT · 2025-05-01 · 28 UPVOTESClaude 3.0, 3.5, 3.7 OpenAI-MRCR benchmark results
Claude 3.0, 3.5, 3.7 OpenAI-MRCR benchmark results