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 36. 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 42.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 60 to 24.
Ministral 3 8B (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 8B (Reasoning).
Pick Grok Code Fast 1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Grok Code Fast 1
55.7
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
38.5
Grok Code Fast 1
32.8
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
15.2
Grok Code Fast 1
50.4
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
33.4
Grok Code Fast 1
63.7
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
42.1
Grok Code Fast 1
48
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
30
Grok Code Fast 1
79
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
70
Grok Code Fast 1
73.7
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
61.7
Grok Code Fast 1
67.5
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
47.8
Grok Code Fast 1 is ahead overall, 54 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 60 and 24.
Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 48 versus 30. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 32.8 versus 15.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 47.8. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.7 versus 42.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.7 versus 38.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.4 versus 33.4. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok Code Fast 1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 70. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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.
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