Grok 3 [Beta] vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Grok 3 [Beta] is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 38 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Grok 3 [Beta]'s sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 47.4 against 30.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 53 to 32. Ministral 3 3B does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 3 [Beta] if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority.

Agentic

Grok 3 [Beta]

Grok 3 [Beta]

35.7

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

32
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
41
BrowseComp
33
36
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Grok 3 [Beta]

Grok 3 [Beta]

16.3

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

34
HumanEval
15
19
SWE-bench Verified
8
11
LiveCodeBench
7
21
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Grok 3 [Beta]

Grok 3 [Beta]

43.2

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

40
MMMU-Pro
25
47
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Grok 3 [Beta]

Grok 3 [Beta]

47.4

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

40
SimpleQA
22
38
MuSR
20
62
BBH
57
53
LongBench v2
32
52
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Grok 3 [Beta]

Grok 3 [Beta]

34

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

42
MMLU
24
41
GPQA
23
39
SuperGPQA
21
37
OpenBookQA
19
53
MMLU-Pro
48
3
HLE
1
40
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Tie

Grok 3 [Beta]

67

Ministral 3 3B

67

67
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Ministral 3 3B

Grok 3 [Beta]

58.7

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

60
MGSM
61
58
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Grok 3 [Beta]

Grok 3 [Beta]

49.1

Ministral 3 3B

36

42
AIME 2023
23
44
AIME 2024
25
43
AIME 2025
24
38
HMMT Feb 2023
19
40
HMMT Feb 2024
21
39
HMMT Feb 2025
20
41
BRUMO 2025
22
59
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 3 [Beta] or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 3 [Beta] is ahead overall, 38 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 53 and 32.

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

Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 34 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 3 [Beta] or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 16.3 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Grok 3 [Beta] or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 49.1 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Grok 3 [Beta] or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 47.4 versus 30.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 35.7 versus 22.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 43.2 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok 3 [Beta] and Ministral 3 3B are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 67 on average.

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

Ministral 3 3B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.7 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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