Grok 4.1 vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Grok 4.1 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 84 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Grok 4.1's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 73.4 against 6.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 91 to 15.

Grok 4.1 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 3B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Grok 4.1 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 3B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4.1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Grok 4.1

Grok 4.1

76.9

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

79
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
79
BrowseComp
33
73
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Grok 4.1

Grok 4.1

73.4

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

91
HumanEval
15
77
SWE-bench Verified
8
73
LiveCodeBench
7
73
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Grok 4.1

Grok 4.1

93.2

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

95
MMMU-Pro
25
91
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Grok 4.1

Grok 4.1

91.9

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

95
SimpleQA
22
93
MuSR
20
93
BBH
57
90
LongBench v2
32
89
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Grok 4.1

Grok 4.1

79.5

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

99
MMLU
24
97
GPQA
23
95
SuperGPQA
21
93
OpenBookQA
19
90
MMLU-Pro
48
40
HLE
1
91
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Grok 4.1

Grok 4.1

93

Ministral 3 3B

67

93
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Grok 4.1

Grok 4.1

92.8

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

96
MGSM
61
91
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Grok 4.1

Grok 4.1

96.8

Ministral 3 3B

36

99
AIME 2023
23
99
AIME 2024
25
98
AIME 2025
24
95
HMMT Feb 2023
19
97
HMMT Feb 2024
21
96
HMMT Feb 2025
20
96
BRUMO 2025
22
97
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 4.1 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4.1 is ahead overall, 84 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 91 and 15.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 4.1 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.5 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 4.1 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4.1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 73.4 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Grok 4.1 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4.1 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 96.8 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Grok 4.1 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4.1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 91.9 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Grok 4.1 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4.1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 22.9. 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, Grok 4.1 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4.1 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 93.2 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 4.1 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4.1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Grok 4.1 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4.1 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 92.8 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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