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OpenAI o1 vs Grok 3

Side-by-side intelligence, speed, price, benchmarks, strengths and weaknesses for OpenAI o1 and Grok 3 — refreshed monthly.

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OpenAI

OpenAI o1

ProprietaryDec 2024

Long chain-of-thought reasoning — unbeatable on hard math and code.

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xAI

Grok 3

ProprietaryFeb 2025

Real-time data via X — competitive on reasoning, 1M context.

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Head to head

Spec
OpenAI o1
Grok 3
Intelligence index↑ better
Winner76
74
Speed↑ better
32 tok/s
Winner75 tok/s
Time to first token↓ better
12 s
Winner0.6 s
Context window↑ better
200k
Winner1M
Max output↑ better
Winner100k
16k
Input price↓ better
$15.00 / 1M tokens
Winner$3.00 / 1M tokens
Output price↓ better
$60.00 / 1M tokens
Winner$15.00 / 1M tokens
Blended price↓ better
$26.25 / 1M tokens
Winner$6.00 / 1M tokens
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input modalities
text, image
text, image
Output modalities
text
text

Benchmark showdown

MMLU
OpenAI o1
91.8
Grok 3
88.0
MMLU Pro
OpenAI o1
80.0
Grok 3
76.0
GPQA
OpenAI o1
78.0
Grok 3
62.0
MATH
OpenAI o1
94.8
Grok 3
88.5
HumanEval
OpenAI o1
92.4
Grok 3
90.0

Strengths, weaknesses and best-for

OpenAI o1
Strengths
  • Tops MATH and GPQA leaderboards
  • Self-checks its work
Weaknesses
  • Very slow
  • Very expensive
  • Overkill for simple tasks
Best for
  • Research problems
  • Olympiad-level math
  • Algorithm design
Grok 3
Strengths
  • Live X data
  • 1M context
  • Strong reasoning mode
Weaknesses
  • Smaller ecosystem
  • Less tool-use tooling
Best for
  • Real-time research
  • Social-aware apps

Quick verdict

  • Pick OpenAI o1 if you want it smarter.
  • Pick Grok 3 if you want it faster, cheaper and longer context.

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