Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Gemini 2.5 Flash offers 860.7K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Both models have similar pricing. Gemini 2.5 Flash supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Google DeepMind
Gemini 2.5 Flash, released by Google in June 2025, is a large language model from the Gemini 2.5 family optimized for high-throughput, cost-efficient deployments with multimodal reasoning. It features a 1M token context window, hybrid thinking control, and native support for text, image, video, and audio input. Gemini 2.5 Flash targets latency-sensitive applications, document analysis, and high-volume API workloads that benefit from combined reasoning and generation in a single model.
xAI
Grok 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
4 months newer

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17

Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google DeepMind
2025-06-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Grok 3 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Grok 3 mini
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Grok 3 mini
Available providers and their performance metrics
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Grok 3 mini
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Grok 3 mini
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Grok 3 mini
xAI