Grok 4 vs Ministral 3 3B (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 31. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 78.2 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 79 to 16.

Ministral 3 3B (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 3B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Grok 4

Grok 4

58.1

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

34

57
Terminal-Bench 2.0
33
63
BrowseComp
37
56
OSWorld-Verified
33

Coding

Grok 4

Grok 4

43.1

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

7.2

79
HumanEval
16
48
SWE-bench Verified
9
37
LiveCodeBench
8
48
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Grok 4

Grok 4

78.2

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

30.4

80
MMMU-Pro
25
76
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Grok 4

Grok 4

77.4

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

35.3

83
SimpleQA
26
81
MuSR
26
83
BBH
63
72
LongBench v2
37
71
MRCRv2
40

Knowledge

Grok 4

Grok 4

63.8

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

25.2

87
MMLU
25
86
GPQA
24
84
SuperGPQA
22
82
OpenBookQA
20
77
MMLU-Pro
49
16
HLE
1
75
FrontierScience
29

Instruction Following

Grok 4

Grok 4

82

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

68

82
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Grok 4

Grok 4

80.8

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

59.7

84
MGSM
61
79
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Grok 4

Grok 4

85.1

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

40.9

87
AIME 2023
27
89
AIME 2024
29
88
AIME 2025
28
84
HMMT Feb 2023
23
86
HMMT Feb 2024
25
85
HMMT Feb 2025
24
87
BRUMO 2025
26
83
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Grok 4 is ahead overall, 66 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 79 and 16.

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

Grok 4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.8 versus 25.2. 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 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.1 versus 7.2. 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 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 85.1 versus 40.9. 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 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 35.3. 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 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.1 versus 34. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

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 (Reasoning)?

Grok 4 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 68. 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 (Reasoning)?

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

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