Aion-2.0 vs Ministral 3 8B

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 32. 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 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OpenBookQA, 75 to 23.

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 8B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone.

Quick Verdict

Pick Aion-2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

51.7

Ministral 3 8B

28.9

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
60
BrowseComp
36
50
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

33.2

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

66
HumanEval
23
35
SWE-bench Verified
16
29
LiveCodeBench
15
37
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

66

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

61
MMMU-Pro
27
72
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

70.3

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

76
SimpleQA
28
74
MuSR
26
76
BBH
63
64
LongBench v2
38
65
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

54

Ministral 3 8B

28

78
MMLU
28
77
GPQA
27
75
SuperGPQA
25
75
OpenBookQA
23
67
MMLU-Pro
52
5
HLE
3
66
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

93

Ministral 3 8B

69

93
IFEval
69

Multilingual

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

78.1

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

80
MGSM
63
77
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

72.1

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

74
AIME 2023
30
76
AIME 2024
32
75
AIME 2025
33
70
HMMT Feb 2023
26
72
HMMT Feb 2024
28
71
HMMT Feb 2025
27
73
BRUMO 2025
29
71
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 8B?

Aion-2.0 is ahead overall, 58 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OpenBookQA, where the scores are 75 and 23.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 8B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 28. 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 8B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33.2 versus 14.2. 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 8B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.1 versus 43.3. 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 8B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 70.3 versus 36.1. 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 8B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.7 versus 28.9. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Aion-2.0 or Ministral 3 8B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 32.4. 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 8B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93 versus 69. 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 8B?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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