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Grok 2 mini
Grok 2 mini is a proprietary model from xAI. It ranks #274 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1281.
LMArena text1281+0 in 30 days
Rank#274/351
95% interval1277–1284
Votes52.6K
- Developer
- xAI
- Released
- Aug 23, 2024
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- Price in / out, per 1M tokens
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- Weights
- Proprietary
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- Reasoning
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LatestGrok 2 mini 1281
The rating LMArena published at each update since Aug 23, 2024. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.
LMArena, by category
| Leaderboard | Rating | Rank | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TextLMArena | 1281 | 274 / 351 | 52.6K |
| CodingLMArena | 1268 | 283 / 346 | 8.7K |
| MathLMArena | 1265 | 274 / 339 | 7.3K |
| Creative writingLMArena | 1241 | 279 / 349 | 7.9K |
| Instruction followingLMArena | 1245 | 285 / 351 | 21.1K |
| Hard promptsLMArena | 1255 | 284 / 351 | 14.2K |
| Multi-turnLMArena | 1265 | 281 / 349 | 9.4K |
| Long queriesLMArena | 1266 | 276 / 330 | 7K |
| ExpertLMArena | 1238 | 268 / 305 | 2.8K |
| Legal and governmentIndustries | 1292 | 259 / 325 | 3K |
| Medicine and healthcareIndustries | 1298 | 247 / 325 | 2.6K |
| Business and financeIndustries | 1254 | 271 / 344 | 6.1K |
| ChineseLanguages | 1263 | 267 / 328 | 4.5K |
| SpanishLanguages | 1279 | 228 / 249 | 575 |
| GermanLanguages | 1273 | 214 / 261 | 1.3K |
| FrenchLanguages | 1286 | 225 / 252 | 471 |
| JapaneseLanguages | 1213 | 204 / 236 | 1.2K |
LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.
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xAI
The lab behind Grok, trained on one of the largest compute clusters and integrated with X. Founded 2023, based in San Francisco Bay Area. x.ai
Questions
Who makes Grok 2 mini?
Grok 2 mini is made by xAI, founded 2023 and based in San Francisco Bay Area.
How does Grok 2 mini rank?
#274 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1281 (95% interval 1277–1284) from 52,567 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.
Is Grok 2 mini open source?
No. Grok 2 mini is proprietary and served through its provider’s API.