Gemini 1.5 Pro vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 52 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 1.5 Pro's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 74.1 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 75 to 25.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 1.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

49.8

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

45
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
64
BrowseComp
33
45
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

18.5

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

56
HumanEval
15
5
SWE-bench Verified
8
22
LiveCodeBench
7
18
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

74.1

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

75
MMMU-Pro
25
73
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

66.9

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

62
SimpleQA
22
60
MuSR
20
74
BBH
57
70
LongBench v2
32
73
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

44.2

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

64
MMLU
24
64
GPQA
23
62
SuperGPQA
21
60
OpenBookQA
19
57
MMLU-Pro
48
1
HLE
1
54
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

77

Ministral 3 3B

67

77
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

69.5

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

76
MGSM
61
66
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

67.5

Ministral 3 3B

36

64
AIME 2023
23
66
AIME 2024
25
65
AIME 2025
24
60
HMMT Feb 2023
19
62
HMMT Feb 2024
21
61
HMMT Feb 2025
20
63
BRUMO 2025
22
73
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro is ahead overall, 52 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 75 and 25.

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 24.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 18.5 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.8 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 1.5 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 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 1.5 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.5 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 1.5 Pro or Ministral 3 3B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.5 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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