Grok 4 vs Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

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

Grok 4 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 60. 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 knowledge, where it averages 63.8 against 52.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 79 to 62. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Grok 4 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Grok 4

58.1

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

57
Terminal-Bench 2.0
60
63
BrowseComp
61
56
OSWorld-Verified
55

Coding

Grok 4

Grok 4

43.1

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

79
HumanEval
62
48
SWE-bench Verified
39
37
LiveCodeBench
33
48
SWE-bench Pro
36

Multimodal & Grounded

Grok 4

Grok 4

78.2

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

80
MMMU-Pro
71
76
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Grok 4

Grok 4

77.4

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

83
SimpleQA
70
81
MuSR
70
83
BBH
80
72
LongBench v2
66
71
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

Grok 4

Grok 4

63.8

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

87
MMLU
71
86
GPQA
70
84
SuperGPQA
68
82
OpenBookQA
66
77
MMLU-Pro
69
16
HLE
7
75
FrontierScience
62

Instruction Following

Grok 4

Grok 4

82

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

82
IFEval
81

Multilingual

Grok 4

Grok 4

80.8

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

84
MGSM
81
79
MMLU-ProX
76

Mathematics

Grok 4

Grok 4

85.1

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

87
AIME 2023
73
89
AIME 2024
75
88
AIME 2025
74
84
HMMT Feb 2023
69
86
HMMT Feb 2024
71
85
HMMT Feb 2025
70
87
BRUMO 2025
72
83
MATH-500
79

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Grok 4 is ahead overall, 66 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 79 and 62.

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

Grok 4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.8 versus 52.1. 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 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.1 versus 35. 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 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 85.1 versus 75.2. 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 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 69.2. 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 (Reasoning)?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 58.1. 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 or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.2 versus 71.5. 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 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 81. 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 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 77.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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