Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Ministral 3B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87% for Grok 4 and 25.3% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Ministral 3B specifications
Grok 4Ministral 3B
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index48.126.2
Released2025-07-092024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.10
Results tracked486

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 3B
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
LMArena Coding1408—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Ministral 3B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 3B
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44118.1
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1409—
DTBench—51.7%
LMCA—5.5%
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
LMArena Math1422—
MATH Level 5—14.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 3B
GPQA Diamond87%25.3%
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
LMArena Expert1415—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Ministral 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 3B
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 3B
LMArena Non-English1403—
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—
LMArena Russian1410—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 3B
IFEval94.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1387—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 3B
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1409—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 3B
LMArena Text1411—
LMArena Creative Writing1397—
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1416—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Ministral 3B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Ministral 3B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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