Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct leads with 41.6% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct offers 120.0K more tokens in context window than Grok-3. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Grok-3 supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Overall, Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
xAI
Grok-3 is a multimodal language model developed by xAI. This model demonstrates exceptional performance with an average score of 85.7% across 5 benchmarks. It excels particularly in AIME 2025 (93.3%), AIME 2024 (93.3%), GPQA (84.6%). It supports a 136K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
Meta
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is a language model developed by Meta. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 74.7% across 18 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM-8K (CoT) (95.1%), ARC-C (94.8%), API-Bank (90.0%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 9 API providers. Released in 2024, it represents Meta's latest advancement in AI technology.
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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23
Grok-3
xAI
2025-02-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok-3
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 22 common benchmarks
Grok-3
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Grok-3
2024-11-17
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok-3
xAI
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Grok-3
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Grok-3
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
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