Grok 3 Mini vs Mistral 8x7B v0.2

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

Grok 3 Mini is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 23 to 13. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Grok 3 Mini's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 74.1 against 27. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 66.2% to 28%. Mistral 8x7B v0.2 does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Grok 3 Mini gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Mistral 8x7B v0.2.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 3 Mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 8x7B v0.2 only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority.

Agentic

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Coding

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

Mistral 8x7B v0.2

21

41.5%
LiveCodeBench
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HumanEval
21%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Mistral 8x7B v0.2

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

Mistral 8x7B v0.2

25.9

21.7%
SimpleQA
27%
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MuSR
25%

Knowledge

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

Mistral 8x7B v0.2

27

66.2%
GPQA
28%
78.9%
MMLU-Pro
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MMLU
29%
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SuperGPQA
26%
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OpenBookQA
24%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

Mistral 8x7B v0.2

28

39.7%
AIME 2024
31%
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AIME 2023
29%
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AIME 2025
30%
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HMMT Feb 2023
25%
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HMMT Feb 2024
27%
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HMMT Feb 2025
26%
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BRUMO 2025
28%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 3 Mini or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

Grok 3 Mini is ahead overall, 23 to 13. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 66.2% and 28%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 3 Mini or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 27. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 3 Mini or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.5 versus 21. Mistral 8x7B v0.2 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, Grok 3 Mini or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 39.7 versus 28. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Grok 3 Mini or Mistral 8x7B v0.2?

Mistral 8x7B v0.2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 25.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

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