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 32. 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 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 53 to 38. Ministral 3 8B does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Pick Grok 3 [Beta] if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority.
Grok 3 [Beta]
35.7
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Grok 3 [Beta]
16.3
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Grok 3 [Beta]
43.2
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Grok 3 [Beta]
47.4
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Grok 3 [Beta]
34
Ministral 3 8B
28
Grok 3 [Beta]
67
Ministral 3 8B
69
Grok 3 [Beta]
58.7
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Grok 3 [Beta]
49.1
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Grok 3 [Beta] is ahead overall, 38 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 53 and 38.
Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 34 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 16.3 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 49.1 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 47.4 versus 36.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 35.7 versus 28.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 43.2 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 69 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 58.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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