Grok 4 vs Ministral 3 8B

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

Grok 4 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 32. 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 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 87 to 28.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B 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 8B

28.9

57
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
63
BrowseComp
36
56
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

Grok 4

Grok 4

43.1

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

79
HumanEval
23
48
SWE-bench Verified
16
37
LiveCodeBench
15
48
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

Grok 4

Grok 4

78.2

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

80
MMMU-Pro
27
76
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Grok 4

Grok 4

77.4

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

83
SimpleQA
28
81
MuSR
26
83
BBH
63
72
LongBench v2
38
71
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

Grok 4

Grok 4

63.8

Ministral 3 8B

28

87
MMLU
28
86
GPQA
27
84
SuperGPQA
25
82
OpenBookQA
23
77
MMLU-Pro
52
16
HLE
3
75
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

Grok 4

Grok 4

82

Ministral 3 8B

69

82
IFEval
69

Multilingual

Grok 4

Grok 4

80.8

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

84
MGSM
63
79
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

Grok 4

Grok 4

85.1

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

87
AIME 2023
30
89
AIME 2024
32
88
AIME 2025
33
84
HMMT Feb 2023
26
86
HMMT Feb 2024
28
85
HMMT Feb 2025
27
87
BRUMO 2025
29
83
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 8B?

Grok 4 is ahead overall, 66 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 87 and 28.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 8B?

Grok 4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.8 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 8B?

Grok 4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.1 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Grok 4 or Ministral 3 8B?

Grok 4 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 85.1 versus 43.3. 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 8B?

Grok 4 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 36.1. 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 8B?

Grok 4 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.1 versus 28.9. 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 8B?

Grok 4 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.2 versus 32.4. 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 8B?

Grok 4 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 69. 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 8B?

Grok 4 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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