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Grok-3 mini vs R1 Distill Llama 70B

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Winner summary

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

Hype vs Reality
Grok-3 mini
#95 by perf·no signal
QUIET
R1 Distill Llama 70B
#232 by perf·no signal
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Best value
Grok-3 mini
no price
R1 Distill Llama 70B
34.8 pts/$
$0.80/M
Vendor risk
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xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
xAI logoGrok-3 mini
DeepSeek logoR1 Distill Llama 70B$0.80$0.80128K tokens (~64 books)$8.00