Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Ministral 8B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 9 categories and Ministral 8B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 12.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87% for Grok 4 and 27.1% for Ministral 8B.
  • Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4Ministral 8B
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index48.128.2
Released2025-07-092024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked4817

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 8B
LMArena Coding14081202
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%11.1%
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts14091191
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
DTBench—45.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 8B
LMArena Math14221188
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
MATH Level 5—14.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 8B
GPQA Diamond87%27.1%
LMArena Expert14151170
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Ministral 8B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 8B
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 8B
LMArena Non-English14031165
LMArena Chinese14271193
LMArena Russian14101195
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following13871161
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 8B
LMArena Longer Query14091212
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

BenchmarkGrok 4Ministral 8B
LMArena Text14111191
LMArena Creative Writing13971175
LMArena Multi-Turn14161166
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Ministral 8B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 35.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Ministral 8B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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