Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs Grok 3 [Beta]

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 38. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 71.5 against 43.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MuSR, 70 to 38.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Grok 3 [Beta] is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 3 [Beta] only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

Grok 3 [Beta]

35.7

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
32
61
BrowseComp
41
55
OSWorld-Verified
36

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

Grok 3 [Beta]

16.3

62
HumanEval
34
39
SWE-bench Verified
19
33
LiveCodeBench
11
36
SWE-bench Pro
21

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

Grok 3 [Beta]

43.2

71
MMMU-Pro
40
72
OfficeQA Pro
47

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

Grok 3 [Beta]

47.4

70
SimpleQA
40
70
MuSR
38
80
BBH
62
66
LongBench v2
53
66
MRCRv2
52

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

Grok 3 [Beta]

34

71
MMLU
42
70
GPQA
41
68
SuperGPQA
39
66
OpenBookQA
37
69
MMLU-Pro
53
7
HLE
3
62
FrontierScience
40

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

Grok 3 [Beta]

67

81
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

Grok 3 [Beta]

58.7

81
MGSM
60
76
MMLU-ProX
58

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

Grok 3 [Beta]

49.1

73
AIME 2023
42
75
AIME 2024
44
74
AIME 2025
43
69
HMMT Feb 2023
38
71
HMMT Feb 2024
40
70
HMMT Feb 2025
39
72
BRUMO 2025
41
79
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MuSR, where the scores are 70 and 38.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 34. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 16.3. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 49.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 47.4. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 35.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 43.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 58.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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