Ministral 3 14B vs DBRX Instruct

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 37. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 70.5 against 35.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OfficeQA Pro, 71 to 35. DBRX Instruct does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Ministral 3 14B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DBRX Instruct only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

DBRX Instruct

34.3

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
41
55
BrowseComp
31
44
OSWorld-Verified
29

Coding

DBRX Instruct

Ministral 3 14B

33

DBRX Instruct

48

58
HumanEval
70.1
37
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
31
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
34
SWE-bench Pro
48

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

DBRX Instruct

35.6

70
MMMU-Pro
36
71
OfficeQA Pro
35

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

DBRX Instruct

36.4

66
SimpleQA
Coming soon
64
MuSR
Coming soon
74
BBH
Coming soon
60
LongBench v2
36
60
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

DBRX Instruct

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

DBRX Instruct

52

69
MMLU
73.7
68
GPQA
Coming soon
66
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
64
OpenBookQA
Coming soon
67
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
5
HLE
Coming soon
60
FrontierScience
52

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

80
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

DBRX Instruct

46

80
MGSM
Coming soon
75
MMLU-ProX
46

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

68
AIME 2023
Coming soon
70
AIME 2024
Coming soon
72
AIME 2025
Coming soon
64
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
66
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
65
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
67
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
72
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or DBRX Instruct?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 37. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OfficeQA Pro, where the scores are 71 and 35.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or DBRX Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 50.1. Inside this category, FrontierScience is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or DBRX Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 48 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or DBRX Instruct?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 36.4. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or DBRX Instruct?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 34.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Ministral 3 14B or DBRX Instruct?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 35.6. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or DBRX Instruct?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 46. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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