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Grok 3 Mini Beta vs DeepSeek V3.1

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

Winner summary

DeepSeek V3.1 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·DeepSeek V3.1
Hype vs Reality
Grok 3 Mini Beta
#30 by perf·no signal
QUIET
DeepSeek V3.1
#88 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.4x better value than DeepSeek V3.1
Grok 3 Mini Beta
162.0 pts/$
$0.40/M
DeepSeek V3.1
113.6 pts/$
$0.45/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
Grok 3 Mini BetaDeepSeek V3.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
DeepSeek V3.1 leads by +60.5
Grok 3 Mini Beta
1357.4
DeepSeek V3.1
1417.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGrok 3 Mini BetaDeepSeek V3.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1357.41417.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
xAI logoGrok 3 Mini Beta$0.30$0.50131K tokens (~66 books)$3.50
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V3.1$0.15$0.7533K tokens (~16 books)$3.00