Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Gemini 1.0 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 46 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 1.0 Pro's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 68.1 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 73 to 25.

Ministral 3 3B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Gemini 1.0 Pro.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 1.0 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.

Agentic

Gemini 1.0 Pro

Gemini 1.0 Pro

39.8

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

36
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
51
BrowseComp
33
36
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Gemini 1.0 Pro

Gemini 1.0 Pro

13.1

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

54
HumanEval
15
5
SWE-bench Verified
8
16
LiveCodeBench
7
12
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 1.0 Pro

Gemini 1.0 Pro

68.1

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

73
MMMU-Pro
25
62
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Gemini 1.0 Pro

Gemini 1.0 Pro

57.4

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

60
SimpleQA
22
58
MuSR
20
73
BBH
57
51
LongBench v2
32
54
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Gemini 1.0 Pro

Gemini 1.0 Pro

42.8

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

62
MMLU
24
62
GPQA
23
60
SuperGPQA
21
58
OpenBookQA
19
54
MMLU-Pro
48
1
HLE
1
54
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Gemini 1.0 Pro

Gemini 1.0 Pro

77

Ministral 3 3B

67

77
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Gemini 1.0 Pro

Gemini 1.0 Pro

66.8

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

72
MGSM
61
64
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Gemini 1.0 Pro

Gemini 1.0 Pro

65.9

Ministral 3 3B

36

62
AIME 2023
23
64
AIME 2024
25
63
AIME 2025
24
58
HMMT Feb 2023
19
60
HMMT Feb 2024
21
59
HMMT Feb 2025
20
61
BRUMO 2025
22
72
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro is ahead overall, 46 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 73 and 25.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.8 versus 24.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 13.1 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 65.9 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 57.4 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.8 versus 22.9. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.1 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.8 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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