# Grok 4 vs Ministral 3B

> Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-4-vs-ministral-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## 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 53.7 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.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 47.8 | 25.6 |
| Rank | 49 | 336 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.04 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 4: 49.9 (#44)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 79.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 45.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1408 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 4: 32.1 (#62)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 63% | — |
| GDPval | 21.1% | — |
| Cybench | 43% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 47.3% | — |
| BALROG | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 4: 36.9 (#59)
- Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.46 | 118.08 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 16% | — |
| SimpleBench | 60.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 66.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 28% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1409 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51.7% |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| ForecastBench | 60.9 | — |

## Math

- Grok 4: 46.5 (#58)
- Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 60.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1422 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 19.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 4: 53.7 (#50)
- Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87% | 25.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 72.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | — |

## Multimodal

- Grok 4: 33.1 (#89)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1211 | — |
| GeoBench | 45% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok 4: 52.0 (#98)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1403 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1428 | — |
| LMArena French | 1418 | — |
| LMArena German | 1429 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1396 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1376 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1409 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1419 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 4: 79.4 (#4)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 94.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1409 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 4: 58.7 (#111)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1397 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.9% | — |
| WildBench | 79.7% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1416 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 4 better than Ministral 3B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 25.6 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.