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 44. 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 mathematics, where it averages 69.7 against 48.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 72 to 39.
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 14B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking 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 4.1 Opus Thinking only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 200K context window or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
46.7
Ministral 3 14B
33
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
21.8
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
59.3
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
49.4
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
34.3
Ministral 3 14B
80
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
66
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
58.7
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
48.3
Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 72 and 39.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 34.3. 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 21.8. Inside this category, HumanEval 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 48.3. 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 49.4. 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 46.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp 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 59.3. 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 66. 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 58.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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