Claude 3 Haiku vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Claude 3 Haiku is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 49 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 3 Haiku's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 68.7 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 25.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3 Haiku if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

44

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

40
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
53
BrowseComp
33
42
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

19.3

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

48
HumanEval
15
17
SWE-bench Verified
8
20
LiveCodeBench
7
19
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

68.7

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

70
MMMU-Pro
25
67
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

59.6

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

54
SimpleQA
22
52
MuSR
20
74
BBH
57
63
LongBench v2
32
63
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

42.8

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

56
MMLU
24
56
GPQA
23
54
SuperGPQA
21
52
OpenBookQA
19
63
MMLU-Pro
48
2
HLE
1
50
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

76

Ministral 3 3B

67

76
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

71.1

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

73
MGSM
61
70
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

62.2

Ministral 3 3B

36

56
AIME 2023
23
58
AIME 2024
25
57
AIME 2025
24
52
HMMT Feb 2023
19
54
HMMT Feb 2024
21
53
HMMT Feb 2025
20
55
BRUMO 2025
22
71
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Claude 3 Haiku is ahead overall, 49 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 25.

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

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.8 versus 24.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 19.3 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 62.2 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59.6 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 44 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, Claude 3 Haiku or Ministral 3 3B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.7 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 76 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.1 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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