Grok 3 vs. DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25)
Comparison between Grok 3 and DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25) across intelligence, price, speed, context window and more.
For details relating to our methodology, see our Methodology page.
| Intelligence | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 12* | 11 | |
| AA-Briefcase | 150 | ||
| GDPval-AA v2 | 479 | ||
| AutomationBench-AA | 0% | ||
| Terminal-Bench v4.0 | 0% | ||
| SciCode | 38% | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4% | 9% | |
| GDP.pdf | 2% | ||
| CritPt | 0% | 1% | |
| AA-Omniscience | −33 | −32 | |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 58% | 58% | |
| Cost | |||
| Price per 1M Tokens | $3.8763 | $2.20 | |
| Input Price per 1M Tokens | $4.00 | $2.00 | |
| Output Price per 1M Tokens | $20.00 | $4.00 | |
| Cache Hit Price per 1M Tokens | $1.5375 | ||
| Cost per Task | $0.26 | ||
| Cost to Run Intelligence Index | $461 | ||
| Token Use | |||
| Output Tokens per Task | 15k | ||
| Reasoning Tokens per Task | 11k | ||
| Output Tokens to Run Intelligence Index | 43M | ||
| Performance | |||
| Technical specifications | |||
| Context Window | 1000k tokens~1,500 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | 128k tokens~192 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | |
| Release Date | February 2025 | January 2025 | |
| Total parameters | 685B | ||
| Active parameters | 37B | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes | |
| Input modality | Supports: text | Supports: text | |
| Output modality | Supports: text and image | Supports: text | |
| Open Source (Weights) | No | ||
| License | |||
| License Supports Commercial Use Without Restrictions | Yes | ||
* Estimated
Highlights
Speed
IntelligenceUpdated
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Intelligence Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic coding & terminal use
Coding
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Physics reasoning
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Long context reasoning
Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate
Agentic business operations
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Instruction following
Agentic tool use
Long-horizon agentic tasks
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Visual reasoning
AA-Briefcase
AA-Briefcase Elo
AA-Omniscience
AA-Omniscience Index
Openness Index
Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score
Intelligence Index Comparisons
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Token Use
Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Context Window
Context Window
Model Size (Open Weights Models Only)
Model Size: Total and Active Parameters
Frequently Asked Questions
Grok 3 is more intelligent. Grok 3 scores 12 (estimated), compared with DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25) at 11 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25) is cheaper. DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25) costs $2.20 per 1M tokens, compared with Grok 3 at $3.88 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).
Grok 3 has a larger context window. Grok 3 supports 1.0M tokens, compared with DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25) at 130k tokens.