Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
DBRX Instruct is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 37 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
DBRX Instruct's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 48 against 14.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 70.1 to 23. Ministral 3 8B does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Ministral 3 8B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.
Pick DBRX Instruct if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.
DBRX Instruct
34.3
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
DBRX Instruct
48
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
DBRX Instruct
35.6
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
DBRX Instruct
36.4
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
DBRX Instruct
52
Ministral 3 8B
28
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
DBRX Instruct
46
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
DBRX Instruct is ahead overall, 37 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 70.1 and 23.
DBRX Instruct has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DBRX Instruct has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 48 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DBRX Instruct has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 36.4 versus 36.1. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DBRX Instruct has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.3 versus 28.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DBRX Instruct has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 35.6 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 46. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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