Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think vs Ministral 3 14B

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

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 81 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 94.5 against 63.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 96 to 60.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 14B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

78.1

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
87
BrowseComp
55
73
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

60.3

Ministral 3 14B

33

91
HumanEval
58
58
SWE-bench Verified
37
58
LiveCodeBench
31
63
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

95

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

95
MMMU-Pro
70
95
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

95
SimpleQA
66
93
MuSR
64
95
BBH
74
94
LongBench v2
60
96
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

74.7

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

99
MMLU
69
97
GPQA
68
95
SuperGPQA
66
93
OpenBookQA
64
81
MMLU-Pro
67
32
HLE
5
88
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

89

Ministral 3 14B

80

89
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

87.4

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

92
MGSM
80
85
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

99
AIME 2023
68
99
AIME 2024
70
98
AIME 2025
72
95
HMMT Feb 2023
64
97
HMMT Feb 2024
66
96
HMMT Feb 2025
65
96
BRUMO 2025
67
92
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 14B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is ahead overall, 81 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 96 and 60.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 14B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.7 versus 50.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 14B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.3 versus 33. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 14B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 69.7. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 14B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 94.5 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 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 14B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 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 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 14B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 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 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 14B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 14B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 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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