Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude Opus 4.6 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 85 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.6's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 75.1 against 33. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 75 to 31.
Claude Opus 4.6 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $15.00 input / $75.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 14B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Claude Opus 4.6 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Claude Opus 4.6
79.2
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Claude Opus 4.6
75.1
Ministral 3 14B
33
Claude Opus 4.6
94.6
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Claude Opus 4.6
93.1
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Claude Opus 4.6
78.9
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Claude Opus 4.6
95
Ministral 3 14B
80
Claude Opus 4.6
94.7
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Claude Opus 4.6
97.2
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead overall, 85 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 75 and 31.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.9 versus 50.1. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 33. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 97.2 versus 69.7. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 93.1 versus 63.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.2 versus 48.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 94.6 versus 70.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 94.7 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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