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R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Grok 3 Mini

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · R1 Distill Llama 70B · Grok 3 Mini are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
R1 Distill Llama 70B
#197 by perf·no signal
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Grok 3 Mini
#110 by perf·no signal
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Best value
3.1x better value than R1 Distill Llama 70B
R1 Distill Llama 70B
37.1 pts/$
$0.75/M
Grok 3 Mini
116.5 pts/$
$0.40/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoR1 Distill Llama 70B$0.70$0.80131K tokens (~66 books)$7.25
xAI logoGrok 3 Mini$0.30$0.50131K tokens (~66 books)$3.50