Ministral 3 14B vs Gemini 1.5 Pro

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

Ministral 3 14B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 55 versus 52. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Ministral 3 14B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 33 against 18.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 37 to 5. Gemini 1.5 Pro does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 1.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 1.5 Pro only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 2M context window.

Agentic

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

Gemini 1.5 Pro

49.8

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
45
55
BrowseComp
64
44
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Gemini 1.5 Pro

18.5

58
HumanEval
56
37
SWE-bench Verified
5
31
LiveCodeBench
22
34
SWE-bench Pro
18

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Gemini 1.5 Pro

74.1

70
MMMU-Pro
75
71
OfficeQA Pro
73

Reasoning

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Gemini 1.5 Pro

66.9

66
SimpleQA
62
64
MuSR
60
74
BBH
74
60
LongBench v2
70
60
MRCRv2
73

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Gemini 1.5 Pro

44.2

69
MMLU
64
68
GPQA
64
66
SuperGPQA
62
64
OpenBookQA
60
67
MMLU-Pro
57
5
HLE
1
60
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Gemini 1.5 Pro

77

80
IFEval
77

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Gemini 1.5 Pro

69.5

80
MGSM
76
75
MMLU-ProX
66

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Gemini 1.5 Pro

67.5

68
AIME 2023
64
70
AIME 2024
66
72
AIME 2025
65
64
HMMT Feb 2023
60
66
HMMT Feb 2024
62
65
HMMT Feb 2025
61
67
BRUMO 2025
63
72
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 52. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 37 and 5.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 18.5. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 67.5. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 63.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.8 versus 48.4. 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 Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 70.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 69.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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