GeekRadar / The comparison desk
COMPARE.
AI models
xai

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13 1280.7 grok-2-mini-2024-08-13 · 95% interval 1277.0–1284.4 · 52,567 votes · 2026-10-15

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,262.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,252.42 – 1,272.41

4510 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,268.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,261.24 – 1,275.53

8652 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,241.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,233.72 – 1,249.08

7924 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,297.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,293.14 – 1,302.78

28429 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,208.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,202.49 – 1,213.98

33168 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,237.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,225.95 – 1,249.31

2759 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,286.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,257.37 – 1,315.09

471 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,272.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,255.59 – 1,290.01

1298 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,254.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,248.93 – 1,260.60

14208 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,267.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,260.29 – 1,274.46

8664 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,253.73 rating

Confidence interval: 1,245.30 – 1,262.16

6124 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,232.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,225.64 – 1,240.17

8614 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,292.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,280.26 – 1,304.05

3012 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,299.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,292.13 – 1,307.00

8788 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,272.62 rating

Confidence interval: 1,264.51 – 1,280.72

6253 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,297.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,284.88 – 1,310.67

2609 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,277.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,271.25 – 1,283.53

13865 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,262.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,256.03 – 1,268.43

14508 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,244.59 rating

Confidence interval: 1,239.33 – 1,249.85

21131 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,212.82 rating

Confidence interval: 1,194.90 – 1,230.74

1225 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,194.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,171.39 – 1,218.30

852 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,266.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,258.44 – 1,273.79

7048 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,265.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,257.40 – 1,272.76

7261 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,265.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,257.97 – 1,272.77

9399 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,256.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,252.00 – 1,261.97

24138 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,280.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,276.95 – 1,284.36

52567 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,261.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,253.20 – 1,269.12

7193 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

1,278.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,253.18 – 1,303.80

575 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
grok-2-mini-2024-08-13
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

grok-2-mini-2024-08-13

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
Proprietary