Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs Grok Code Fast 1

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 54. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 71.5 against 50.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 71 to 40.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Grok Code Fast 1 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. Grok Code Fast 1 gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok Code Fast 1 only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 256K context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

Grok Code Fast 1

55.7

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
59
61
BrowseComp
57
55
OSWorld-Verified
51

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

Grok Code Fast 1

32.8

62
HumanEval
60
39
SWE-bench Verified
31
33
LiveCodeBench
24
36
SWE-bench Pro
42

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

Grok Code Fast 1

50.4

71
MMMU-Pro
40
72
OfficeQA Pro
63

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

Grok Code Fast 1

63.7

70
SimpleQA
61
70
MuSR
59
80
BBH
75
66
LongBench v2
64
66
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

Grok Code Fast 1

48

71
MMLU
64
70
GPQA
63
68
SuperGPQA
61
66
OpenBookQA
59
69
MMLU-Pro
65
7
HLE
7
62
FrontierScience
57

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

Grok Code Fast 1

79

81
IFEval
79

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

Grok Code Fast 1

73.7

81
MGSM
75
76
MMLU-ProX
73

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

Grok Code Fast 1

67.5

73
AIME 2023
64
75
AIME 2024
66
74
AIME 2025
65
69
HMMT Feb 2023
60
71
HMMT Feb 2024
62
70
HMMT Feb 2025
61
72
BRUMO 2025
63
79
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 54. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 71 and 40.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 48. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 32.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 67.5. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 63.7. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 55.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Grok Code Fast 1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 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 (Reasoning) or Grok Code Fast 1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 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 (Reasoning) or Grok Code Fast 1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 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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