Ministral 3 14B vs Gemini 2.5 Flash

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

Ministral 3 14B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 55 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Ministral 3 14B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 33 against 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 72 to 51.

Gemini 2.5 Flash is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.15 input / $0.60 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 14B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Gemini 2.5 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 2.5 Flash only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 1M context window.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

Gemini 2.5 Flash

46.5

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
44
55
BrowseComp
58
44
OSWorld-Verified
41

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Gemini 2.5 Flash

21.7

58
HumanEval
42
37
SWE-bench Verified
23
31
LiveCodeBench
18
34
SWE-bench Pro
25

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Gemini 2.5 Flash

67.7

70
MMMU-Pro
69
71
OfficeQA Pro
66

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Gemini 2.5 Flash

59.2

66
SimpleQA
48
64
MuSR
46
74
BBH
75
60
LongBench v2
68
60
MRCRv2
68

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Gemini 2.5 Flash

40.5

69
MMLU
50
68
GPQA
49
66
SuperGPQA
47
64
OpenBookQA
45
67
MMLU-Pro
64
5
HLE
1
60
FrontierScience
49

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Gemini 2.5 Flash

79

80
IFEval
79

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Gemini 2.5 Flash

70.8

80
MGSM
74
75
MMLU-ProX
69

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Gemini 2.5 Flash

59.4

68
AIME 2023
50
70
AIME 2024
52
72
AIME 2025
51
64
HMMT Feb 2023
46
66
HMMT Feb 2024
48
65
HMMT Feb 2025
47
67
BRUMO 2025
49
72
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 72 and 51.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 40.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 21.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 59.4. 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 2.5 Flash?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 59.2. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 46.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 67.7. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B or Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 79. 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 2.5 Flash?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 70.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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