Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-5 family that delivers incremental improvements in reasoning, instruction following, and multimodal understanding over GPT-5. It features a 400K token context window and targets general-purpose development, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows.
xAI
Grok 3, released by xAI in February 2025, is a large language model trained on xAI's Colossus supercluster with substantially increased compute over previous generations. It features a 1M token context window, RL-enhanced Think mode for extended reasoning, and demonstrated strong results on mathematics, coding, and scientific benchmarks. Grok 3 targets complex reasoning, real-time information tasks via X platform integration, and agentic workflows via the xAI API.
8 months newer

Grok 3
xAI
2025-02-17

GPT-5.1
OpenAI
2025-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
GPT-5.1
Grok 3
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5.1
Grok 3
xAI
GPT-5.1
Grok 3
GPT-5.1
Grok 3