Ministral 3 14B vs Grok Code Fast 1

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

Ministral 3 14B finishes one point ahead overall, 55 to 54. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Ministral 3 14B's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 70.5 against 50.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 40. Grok Code Fast 1 does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Grok Code Fast 1 gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok Code Fast 1 only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Agentic

Grok Code Fast 1

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

Grok Code Fast 1

55.7

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
59
55
BrowseComp
57
44
OSWorld-Verified
51

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Grok Code Fast 1

32.8

58
HumanEval
60
37
SWE-bench Verified
31
31
LiveCodeBench
24
34
SWE-bench Pro
42

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Grok Code Fast 1

50.4

70
MMMU-Pro
40
71
OfficeQA Pro
63

Reasoning

Grok Code Fast 1

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Grok Code Fast 1

63.7

66
SimpleQA
61
64
MuSR
59
74
BBH
75
60
LongBench v2
64
60
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Grok Code Fast 1

48

69
MMLU
64
68
GPQA
63
66
SuperGPQA
61
64
OpenBookQA
59
67
MMLU-Pro
65
5
HLE
7
60
FrontierScience
57

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Grok Code Fast 1

79

80
IFEval
79

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Grok Code Fast 1

73.7

80
MGSM
75
75
MMLU-ProX
73

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Grok Code Fast 1

67.5

68
AIME 2023
64
70
AIME 2024
66
72
AIME 2025
65
64
HMMT Feb 2023
60
66
HMMT Feb 2024
62
65
HMMT Feb 2025
61
67
BRUMO 2025
63
72
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 54. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 40.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 48. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 32.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 67.5. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.7 versus 63.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.7 versus 48.4. 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, Ministral 3 14B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 50.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 79. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Grok Code Fast 1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 73.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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