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GPT-3.5 Turbo vs Grok-3 Mini
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-3 Mini leads with 53.2% higher average benchmark score. Grok-3 Mini offers 115.5K more tokens in context window than GPT-3.5 Turbo. Grok-3 Mini is $1.20 cheaper per million tokens. Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Grok-3 Mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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OpenAI
GPT-3.5 Turbo was developed as an optimized version of GPT-3.5, designed to provide a balance of capability and efficiency for conversational and completion tasks. Built to serve as a cost-effective option for applications requiring reliable language understanding and generation, it became widely adopted for chatbots, content generation, and general-purpose AI assistance.
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xAI
Grok 3 Mini was developed as an efficient version of Grok 3, designed to bring next-generation capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide strong performance with practical efficiency, it extends Grok 3's innovations to broader application scenarios.
1 year newer
GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI
2023-03-21
Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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GPT-3.5 Turbo
Input:$0.50
Output:$1.50
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Grok-3 Mini
Input:$0.30
Output:$0.50($1.20 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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GPT-3.5 Turbo
Average Score:30.8%
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Grok-3 Mini
Average Score:84.0%(+53.2%)
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
GPT-3.5 Turbo
2021-09-30
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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GPT-3.5 Turbo
2 providers
Azure
Throughput: 90 tok/s
Latency: 0.8ms
OpenAI
Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
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GPT-3.5 Turbo
Avg Score:30.8%
Providers:2
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Grok-3 Mini
Avg Score:84.0%(+53.2%)
Providers:1