Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think vs Ministral 3 3B (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 31. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 95 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 91 to 16.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B (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 3B (Reasoning)

34

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
33
87
BrowseComp
37
73
OSWorld-Verified
33

Coding

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

60.3

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

7.2

91
HumanEval
16
58
SWE-bench Verified
9
58
LiveCodeBench
8
63
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

95

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

30.4

95
MMMU-Pro
25
95
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

35.3

95
SimpleQA
26
93
MuSR
26
95
BBH
63
94
LongBench v2
37
96
MRCRv2
40

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

74.7

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

25.2

99
MMLU
25
97
GPQA
24
95
SuperGPQA
22
93
OpenBookQA
20
81
MMLU-Pro
49
32
HLE
1
88
FrontierScience
29

Instruction Following

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

89

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

68

89
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

87.4

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

59.7

92
MGSM
61
85
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

40.9

99
AIME 2023
27
99
AIME 2024
29
98
AIME 2025
28
95
HMMT Feb 2023
23
97
HMMT Feb 2024
25
96
HMMT Feb 2025
24
96
BRUMO 2025
26
92
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is ahead overall, 81 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 91 and 16.

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

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.7 versus 25.2. 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 3B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.3 versus 7.2. 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 3B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 40.9. 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 3B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 35.3. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 34. 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 3B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 30.4. 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 3B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 68. 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 3B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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