Ministral 3 14B vs Claude 3 Haiku

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

Ministral 3 14B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 55 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Ministral 3 14B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 33 against 19.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 37 to 17.

Claude 3 Haiku gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Haiku only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 200K context window.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

Claude 3 Haiku

44

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
40
55
BrowseComp
53
44
OSWorld-Verified
42

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Claude 3 Haiku

19.3

58
HumanEval
48
37
SWE-bench Verified
17
31
LiveCodeBench
20
34
SWE-bench Pro
19

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Claude 3 Haiku

68.7

70
MMMU-Pro
70
71
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Claude 3 Haiku

59.6

66
SimpleQA
54
64
MuSR
52
74
BBH
74
60
LongBench v2
63
60
MRCRv2
63

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Claude 3 Haiku

42.8

69
MMLU
56
68
GPQA
56
66
SuperGPQA
54
64
OpenBookQA
52
67
MMLU-Pro
63
5
HLE
2
60
FrontierScience
50

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Claude 3 Haiku

76

80
IFEval
76

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Claude 3 Haiku

71.1

80
MGSM
73
75
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Claude 3 Haiku

62.2

68
AIME 2023
56
70
AIME 2024
58
72
AIME 2025
57
64
HMMT Feb 2023
52
66
HMMT Feb 2024
54
65
HMMT Feb 2025
53
67
BRUMO 2025
55
72
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 37 and 17.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 42.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 19.3. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 62.2. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 59.6. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 44. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 68.7. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 76. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 71.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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