Grok-2-mini: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Grok-2-mini from xAI ranks #300 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (49.0), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation
xAI
Type
Fast / low-cost (flash) model
Open weights
No
Aggregate rank
#300 of 743 (score 49.0)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Grok-2-mini is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

Grok-2-mini benchmark results

Grok-2-mini benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
BenchmarkScoreRankSourceCaptured
Aider Code Editing54.9%#49 of 92Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard2026-10-13

About Grok-2-mini

Grok-2-mini is a smaller, lower-cost model from xAI. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Grok-2-mini stands

On our aggregate score, Grok-2-mini is #300 of 743 ranked models, around the middle of the table. Its score is 49.0; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 1.0 points below the typical model. That beats 60% of the ranked field. Among the 26 ranked xAI models it is #15. The next one up is Grok 3 mini at 49.4. The next one down is grok-4.20-beta1 at 49.0.

Grok-2-mini, benchmark by benchmark

Grok-2-mini lands below the middle on Aider Code Editing: 54.9%, #49 of 92, with 52% of the field scoring higher. Claude 3.5-Sonnet-20241022 leads at 84.2%; the closest result above is claude-3-sonnet-20240229 at 54.9%. It covers Aider official benchmark. The board median is 55.6%, so Grok-2-mini is 0.7 points below it. Source: Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard (1). 1 of them come from an official leaderboard and 0 from datasets or third-party runs. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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