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Grok 3 mini vs Step-3.5-Flash
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
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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.
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StepFun
Step-3.5-Flash, released by StepFun on February 2, 2026, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 197 billion total parameters and approximately 11 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window using a 3:1 sliding-window-to-full-attention ratio, processing 100–350 tokens per second. Step-3.5-Flash targets agentic tasks, coding workflows, and open-source deployments requiring frontier reasoning capabilities with efficient inference, under an Apache 2.0 license.
11 months newer
Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Step-3.5-Flash
StepFun
2026-02-02
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Provider Availability & Performance
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Grok 3 mini
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xAI
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Grok 3 mini
Avg Score:0.0%
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Step-3.5-Flash
Avg Score:0.0%
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