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Atria Dawn Preview vs Grok-3 Mini

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 31.3.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · xAI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 31.3, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

Choose Grok-3 Mini

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.30/M input and $0.50/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Grok-3 Mini
xAI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
31.3
#111
Reasoning
50.5
#12
30.9
#112
Coding
36.2
#22
18.7
#110
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
— / M
$0.30 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.50 / M
Context window
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128,000

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 4 for Grok-3 Mini

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Grok-3 Minidon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Grok-3 Mini specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Grok-3 Mini specifies output context (8,000 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
xAI
Grok-3 Mini
Input128,000 tokens
Output8,000 tokens
Thu Sep 17 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.

Grok-3 Mini can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Atria Dawn Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Grok-3 Mini

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Grok-3 Mini uses a proprietary license.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Grok-3 Mini

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Grok-3 Mini was released on 2025-02-17.

Atria Dawn Preview is 19 months newer than Grok-3 Mini.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

6 days ago

1.6yr newer
Grok-3 Mini

Feb 17, 2025

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Grok-3 Mini has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-11-17, while Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Grok-3 Mini's training data extends to 2024-11-17, but cannot make a direct comparison without Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date.

Atria Dawn Preview

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Grok-3 Mini

Nov 2024

Outputs Comparison

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Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Grok-3 Mini side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Grok-3 Mini.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Grok-3 Mini?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 31.3. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Grok-3 Mini is made by xAI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Grok-3 Mini in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Grok-3 Mini scores AIME 2024: 95.8%, AIME 2025: 90.8%, GPQA: 84.0%, LiveCodeBench: 80.4%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Grok-3 Mini?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Grok-3 Mini supports 128K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Grok-3 Mini?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 31.3), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MIT vs Proprietary). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Grok-3 Mini?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Grok-3 Mini is developed by xAI.

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