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 51. 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. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 37 to 10.
Claude 3 Opus gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.
Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Opus only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 200K context window.
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Claude 3 Opus
48.1
Ministral 3 14B
33
Claude 3 Opus
19
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Claude 3 Opus
70.3
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Claude 3 Opus
61.6
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Claude 3 Opus
45
Ministral 3 14B
80
Claude 3 Opus
77
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Claude 3 Opus
69.8
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
Claude 3 Opus
65.9
Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 37 and 10.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 45. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 19. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 65.9. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 61.6. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 48.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 70.3. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 69.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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