Gemini 1.5 Pro vs Ministral 3 8B

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 32. 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 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 75 to 27.

Gemini 1.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 1.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B 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 8B

28.9

45
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
64
BrowseComp
36
45
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

18.5

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

56
HumanEval
23
5
SWE-bench Verified
16
22
LiveCodeBench
15
18
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

74.1

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

75
MMMU-Pro
27
73
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

66.9

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

62
SimpleQA
28
60
MuSR
26
74
BBH
63
70
LongBench v2
38
73
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

44.2

Ministral 3 8B

28

64
MMLU
28
64
GPQA
27
62
SuperGPQA
25
60
OpenBookQA
23
57
MMLU-Pro
52
1
HLE
3
54
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

77

Ministral 3 8B

69

77
IFEval
69

Multilingual

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

69.5

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

76
MGSM
63
66
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Gemini 1.5 Pro

67.5

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

64
AIME 2023
30
66
AIME 2024
32
65
AIME 2025
33
60
HMMT Feb 2023
26
62
HMMT Feb 2024
28
61
HMMT Feb 2025
27
63
BRUMO 2025
29
73
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 1.5 Pro or Ministral 3 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro is ahead overall, 52 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 75 and 27.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 1.5 Pro or Ministral 3 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 28. 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 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 18.5 versus 14.2. 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 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 43.3. 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 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 36.1. 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 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.8 versus 28.9. 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 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 32.4. 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 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 69. 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 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.5 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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