Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think vs Ministral 3 8B (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 36. 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 33.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 99 to 30.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B (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 8B (Reasoning)

38.5

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
39
87
BrowseComp
41
73
OSWorld-Verified
36

Coding

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

60.3

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

15.2

91
HumanEval
24
58
SWE-bench Verified
17
58
LiveCodeBench
16
63
SWE-bench Pro
14

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

95

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

33.4

95
MMMU-Pro
28
95
OfficeQA Pro
40

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

42.1

95
SimpleQA
32
93
MuSR
33
95
BBH
70
94
LongBench v2
44
96
MRCRv2
47

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

74.7

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

30

99
MMLU
30
97
GPQA
29
95
SuperGPQA
27
93
OpenBookQA
25
81
MMLU-Pro
54
32
HLE
5
88
FrontierScience
34

Instruction Following

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

89

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

70

89
IFEval
70

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

87.4

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

61.7

92
MGSM
63
85
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

47.8

99
AIME 2023
33
99
AIME 2024
35
98
AIME 2025
34
95
HMMT Feb 2023
29
97
HMMT Feb 2024
31
96
HMMT Feb 2025
30
96
BRUMO 2025
32
92
MATH-500
67

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is ahead overall, 81 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 99 and 30.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.7 versus 30. 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 8B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.3 versus 15.2. 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 8B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 47.8. 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 8B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 42.1. 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 8B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 38.5. 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 8B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 33.4. 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 8B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 70. 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 8B (Reasoning)?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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