Claude 4.1 Opus vs Ministral 3 14B

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

Claude 4.1 Opus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 4.1 Opus's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 44 against 33. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OSWorld-Verified, 57 to 44.

Claude 4.1 Opus gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4.1 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

58.7

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
62
BrowseComp
55
57
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

44

Ministral 3 14B

33

68
HumanEval
58
48
SWE-bench Verified
37
40
LiveCodeBench
31
47
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

80.7

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

82
MMMU-Pro
70
79
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

72.9

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

74
SimpleQA
66
72
MuSR
64
81
BBH
74
71
LongBench v2
60
71
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

57.6

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

76
MMLU
69
76
GPQA
68
74
SuperGPQA
66
72
OpenBookQA
64
75
MMLU-Pro
67
11
HLE
5
68
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

83

Ministral 3 14B

80

83
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

81.8

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

85
MGSM
80
80
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

77.7

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

76
AIME 2023
68
78
AIME 2024
70
77
AIME 2025
72
72
HMMT Feb 2023
64
74
HMMT Feb 2024
66
73
HMMT Feb 2025
65
75
BRUMO 2025
67
81
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 4.1 Opus or Ministral 3 14B?

Claude 4.1 Opus is ahead overall, 64 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OSWorld-Verified, where the scores are 57 and 44.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Ministral 3 14B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.6 versus 50.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 4.1 Opus or Ministral 3 14B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude 4.1 Opus or Ministral 3 14B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 77.7 versus 69.7. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude 4.1 Opus or Ministral 3 14B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 72.9 versus 63.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Ministral 3 14B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.7 versus 48.4. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Ministral 3 14B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.7 versus 70.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 4.1 Opus or Ministral 3 14B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Ministral 3 14B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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