Gemini 3 Flash vs Ministral 3 14B

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

Gemini 3 Flash is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Flash's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 57.5 against 48.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 76 to 60.

Gemini 3 Flash is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $3.00 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 3 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash

57.5

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

56
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
66
BrowseComp
55
53
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash

40.4

Ministral 3 14B

33

62
HumanEval
58
44
SWE-bench Verified
37
36
LiveCodeBench
31
44
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash

79.6

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

80
MMMU-Pro
70
79
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash

72

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

67
SimpleQA
66
65
MuSR
64
84
BBH
74
75
LongBench v2
60
76
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash

52.9

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

70
MMLU
69
69
GPQA
68
67
SuperGPQA
66
65
OpenBookQA
64
72
MMLU-Pro
67
6
HLE
5
65
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash

85

Ministral 3 14B

80

85
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash

80.5

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

85
MGSM
80
78
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash

74

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

70
AIME 2023
68
72
AIME 2024
70
71
AIME 2025
72
66
HMMT Feb 2023
64
68
HMMT Feb 2024
66
67
HMMT Feb 2025
65
69
BRUMO 2025
67
80
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Gemini 3 Flash is ahead overall, 62 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 76 and 60.

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

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.9 versus 50.1. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 40.4 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74 versus 69.7. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 72 versus 63.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.5 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, Gemini 3 Flash or Ministral 3 14B?

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 70.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.5 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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