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Grok 4.3 vs phi-3-mini 3.8B

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Winner summary

Grok 4.3 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.

Category leads
knowledge·Grok 4.3
Hype vs Reality
Grok 4.3
#68 by perf·#15 by attention
UNDERRATED
phi-3-mini 3.8B
#86 by perf·#20 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
Grok 4.3
30.1 pts/$
$1.88/M
phi-3-mini 3.8B
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Microsoft logo
Microsoft
$3.84T·Big Tech
Low risk
Head to head
Grok 4.3phi-3-mini 3.8B
Chess Puzzles
Grok 4.3 leads by +21.1
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Grok 4.3
21.1
phi-3-mini 3.8B
0.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGrok 4.3phi-3-mini 3.8B
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
21.10.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
xAI logoGrok 4.3$1.25$2.501.0M tokens (~500 books)$15.63
Microsoft logophi-3-mini 3.8B————