Aion-2.0 vs Ministral 3 3B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Aion-2.0 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 58 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Aion-2.0's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 70.3 against 30.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OpenBookQA, 75 to 19.

Aion-2.0 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.80 input / $1.60 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 3B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone.

Quick Verdict

Pick Aion-2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

51.7

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
60
BrowseComp
33
50
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

33.2

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

66
HumanEval
15
35
SWE-bench Verified
8
29
LiveCodeBench
7
37
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

66

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

61
MMMU-Pro
25
72
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

70.3

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

76
SimpleQA
22
74
MuSR
20
76
BBH
57
64
LongBench v2
32
65
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

54

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

78
MMLU
24
77
GPQA
23
75
SuperGPQA
21
75
OpenBookQA
19
67
MMLU-Pro
48
5
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

93

Ministral 3 3B

67

93
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

78.1

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

80
MGSM
61
77
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

72.1

Ministral 3 3B

36

74
AIME 2023
23
76
AIME 2024
25
75
AIME 2025
24
70
HMMT Feb 2023
19
72
HMMT Feb 2024
21
71
HMMT Feb 2025
20
73
BRUMO 2025
22
71
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 3B?

Aion-2.0 is ahead overall, 58 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OpenBookQA, where the scores are 75 and 19.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 3B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 24.5. Inside this category, OpenBookQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 3B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33.2 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 3B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.1 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 3B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 70.3 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 3B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.7 versus 22.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 3B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 3B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 3B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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