Grok Code Fast 1 vs Ministral 3 8B

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 32. 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 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 60 to 23.

Grok Code Fast 1 gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok Code Fast 1 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 Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

55.7

Ministral 3 8B

28.9

59
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
57
BrowseComp
36
51
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

32.8

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

60
HumanEval
23
31
SWE-bench Verified
16
24
LiveCodeBench
15
42
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

50.4

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

40
MMMU-Pro
27
63
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

63.7

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

61
SimpleQA
28
59
MuSR
26
75
BBH
63
64
LongBench v2
38
66
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

48

Ministral 3 8B

28

64
MMLU
28
63
GPQA
27
61
SuperGPQA
25
59
OpenBookQA
23
65
MMLU-Pro
52
7
HLE
3
57
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

79

Ministral 3 8B

69

79
IFEval
69

Multilingual

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

73.7

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

75
MGSM
63
73
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

Grok Code Fast 1

Grok Code Fast 1

67.5

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

64
AIME 2023
30
66
AIME 2024
32
65
AIME 2025
33
60
HMMT Feb 2023
26
62
HMMT Feb 2024
28
61
HMMT Feb 2025
27
63
BRUMO 2025
29
73
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok Code Fast 1 or Ministral 3 8B?

Grok Code Fast 1 is ahead overall, 54 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 60 and 23.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok Code Fast 1 or Ministral 3 8B?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 48 versus 28. 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 8B?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 32.8 versus 14.2. 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 8B?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 43.3. 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 8B?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.7 versus 36.1. 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 8B?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.7 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 Code Fast 1 or Ministral 3 8B?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.4 versus 32.4. 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 8B?

Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 69. 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 8B?

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