Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Grok 4.1 Fast is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 76 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Grok 4.1 Fast's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 87.4 against 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 94 to 28.
Grok 4.1 Fast gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B.
Pick Grok 4.1 Fast if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Grok 4.1 Fast
71
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Grok 4.1 Fast
59.5
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Grok 4.1 Fast
87.4
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Grok 4.1 Fast
88.3
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Grok 4.1 Fast
69.2
Ministral 3 8B
28
Grok 4.1 Fast
90
Ministral 3 8B
69
Grok 4.1 Fast
84.8
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Grok 4.1 Fast
92.3
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Grok 4.1 Fast is ahead overall, 76 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 94 and 28.
Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 59.5 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92.3 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 88.3 versus 36.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 71 versus 28.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 90 versus 69. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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