Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think vs Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

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 60. 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 coding, where it averages 60.3 against 35. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 96 to 66.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

78.1

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
60
87
BrowseComp
61
73
OSWorld-Verified
55

Coding

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

60.3

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

91
HumanEval
62
58
SWE-bench Verified
39
58
LiveCodeBench
33
63
SWE-bench Pro
36

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

95

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

95
MMMU-Pro
71
95
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

95
SimpleQA
70
93
MuSR
70
95
BBH
80
94
LongBench v2
66
96
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

74.7

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

99
MMLU
71
97
GPQA
70
95
SuperGPQA
68
93
OpenBookQA
66
81
MMLU-Pro
69
32
HLE
7
88
FrontierScience
62

Instruction Following

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

89

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

89
IFEval
81

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

87.4

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

92
MGSM
81
85
MMLU-ProX
76

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

99
AIME 2023
73
99
AIME 2024
75
98
AIME 2025
74
95
HMMT Feb 2023
69
97
HMMT Feb 2024
71
96
HMMT Feb 2025
70
96
BRUMO 2025
72
92
MATH-500
79

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is ahead overall, 81 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 96 and 66.

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

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.7 versus 52.1. 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 (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.3 versus 35. 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 (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 75.2. 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 (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 69.2. 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 (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 58.5. 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 (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 71.5. 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 (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 81. 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 (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 77.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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