Grok Code Fast 1 vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Grok Code Fast 1 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 54 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Grok Code Fast 1's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 63.7 against 30.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 60 to 15.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok Code Fast 1 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 Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

55.7

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

59
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
57
BrowseComp
33
51
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

32.8

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

60
HumanEval
15
31
SWE-bench Verified
8
24
LiveCodeBench
7
42
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

50.4

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

40
MMMU-Pro
25
63
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

63.7

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

61
SimpleQA
22
59
MuSR
20
75
BBH
57
64
LongBench v2
32
66
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

48

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

64
MMLU
24
63
GPQA
23
61
SuperGPQA
21
59
OpenBookQA
19
65
MMLU-Pro
48
7
HLE
1
57
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

79

Ministral 3 3B

67

79
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

73.7

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

75
MGSM
61
73
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

67.5

Ministral 3 3B

36

64
AIME 2023
23
66
AIME 2024
25
65
AIME 2025
24
60
HMMT Feb 2023
19
62
HMMT Feb 2024
21
61
HMMT Feb 2025
20
63
BRUMO 2025
22
73
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Grok Code Fast 1 is ahead overall, 54 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 60 and 15.

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

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 48 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 32.8 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.7 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

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

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.4 versus 30.4. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.7 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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