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.
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.
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Gemini 2.5 Flash
46.5
Ministral 3 14B
33
Gemini 2.5 Flash
21.7
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
67.7
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Gemini 2.5 Flash
59.2
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Gemini 2.5 Flash
40.5
Ministral 3 14B
80
Gemini 2.5 Flash
79
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Gemini 2.5 Flash
70.8
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
Gemini 2.5 Flash
59.4
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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