grok-4-1-fast-reasoning vs ministral-8b-latest

Capability for the money

Not the same tier: grok-4-1-fast-reasoning leads ministral-8b-latest by 66.7 points on tool use (τ²-bench), for 1.8× the price.

1. Following instructions

   extraction, classification, sticking to a format

   IFBench
   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning52.7%

   ministral-8b-latest29.1%

   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning +23.6

2. Coding

   writing and fixing code

   LiveCodeBench
   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning82.2%

   ministral-8b-latest30.3%

   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning +51.9

3. Tool use

   multi-step agent work against real tools

   τ²-bench
   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning93.3%

   ministral-8b-latest26.6%

   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning +66.7

4. Hard reasoning

   graduate-level science and multi-step analysis

   GPQA Diamond
   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning85.3%

   ministral-8b-latest47.1%

   grok-4-1-fast-reasoning +38.2

Averaged over the benchmarks both models sat, grok-4-1-fast-reasoning returns 285.0 points of pass rate per dollar of blended price against 221.8 — the ratio that decides whether the dearer model earns its rate.

Each figure is a pass rate: the share of that test set the model answered correctly, measured by a third party rather than self-reported by the lab. Rows are different tests of different difficulty, so compare a model against the other model, not one row against the next. And a benchmark is not your workload — it narrows the shortlist, it does not pick for you.