Grok 4 vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Grok 4 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 27. 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 36. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HMMT Feb 2023, 84 to 19.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B 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 3B

22.9

57
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
63
BrowseComp
33
56
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Grok 4

Grok 4

43.1

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

79
HumanEval
15
48
SWE-bench Verified
8
37
LiveCodeBench
7
48
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Grok 4

Grok 4

78.2

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

80
MMMU-Pro
25
76
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Grok 4

Grok 4

77.4

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

83
SimpleQA
22
81
MuSR
20
83
BBH
57
72
LongBench v2
32
71
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Grok 4

Grok 4

63.8

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

87
MMLU
24
86
GPQA
23
84
SuperGPQA
21
82
OpenBookQA
19
77
MMLU-Pro
48
16
HLE
1
75
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Grok 4

Grok 4

82

Ministral 3 3B

67

82
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Grok 4

Grok 4

80.8

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

84
MGSM
61
79
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Grok 4

Grok 4

85.1

Ministral 3 3B

36

87
AIME 2023
23
89
AIME 2024
25
88
AIME 2025
24
84
HMMT Feb 2023
19
86
HMMT Feb 2024
21
85
HMMT Feb 2025
20
87
BRUMO 2025
22
83
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Grok 4 is ahead overall, 66 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HMMT Feb 2023, where the scores are 84 and 19.

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

Grok 4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.8 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok 4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.1 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok 4 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 85.1 versus 36. 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 3B?

Grok 4 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 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 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.1 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 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.2 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 or Ministral 3 3B?

Grok 4 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 67. 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 3B?

Grok 4 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

Weekly LLM Benchmark Digest

Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.