Grok 4 vs Ministral 3 14B

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

Grok 4 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Grok 4's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 85.1 against 69.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 79 to 58.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Grok 4

Grok 4

58.1

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

57
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
63
BrowseComp
55
56
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

Grok 4

Grok 4

43.1

Ministral 3 14B

33

79
HumanEval
58
48
SWE-bench Verified
37
37
LiveCodeBench
31
48
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

Grok 4

Grok 4

78.2

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

80
MMMU-Pro
70
76
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

Grok 4

Grok 4

77.4

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

83
SimpleQA
66
81
MuSR
64
83
BBH
74
72
LongBench v2
60
71
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Grok 4

Grok 4

63.8

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

87
MMLU
69
86
GPQA
68
84
SuperGPQA
66
82
OpenBookQA
64
77
MMLU-Pro
67
16
HLE
5
75
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

Grok 4

Grok 4

82

Ministral 3 14B

80

82
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Grok 4

Grok 4

80.8

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

84
MGSM
80
79
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

Grok 4

Grok 4

85.1

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

87
AIME 2023
68
89
AIME 2024
70
88
AIME 2025
72
84
HMMT Feb 2023
64
86
HMMT Feb 2024
66
85
HMMT Feb 2025
65
87
BRUMO 2025
67
83
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 14B?

Grok 4 is ahead overall, 66 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 79 and 58.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 14B?

Grok 4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.8 versus 50.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 14B?

Grok 4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.1 versus 33. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 14B?

Grok 4 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 85.1 versus 69.7. Inside this category, HMMT Feb 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 14B?

Grok 4 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 63.6. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 14B?

Grok 4 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.1 versus 48.4. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 14B?

Grok 4 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.2 versus 70.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 14B?

Grok 4 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 14B?

Grok 4 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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