Ministral 3 14B vs GLM-4.5-Air

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

Ministral 3 14B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 55 to 35. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Ministral 3 14B's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 70.5 against 39.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 72 to 36.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-4.5-Air only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

GLM-4.5-Air

30.3

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
28
55
BrowseComp
37
44
OSWorld-Verified
28

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

GLM-4.5-Air

14.6

58
HumanEval
27
37
SWE-bench Verified
15
31
LiveCodeBench
15
34
SWE-bench Pro
14

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

GLM-4.5-Air

39.6

70
MMMU-Pro
36
71
OfficeQA Pro
44

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

GLM-4.5-Air

42.6

66
SimpleQA
33
64
MuSR
31
74
BBH
63
60
LongBench v2
47
60
MRCRv2
51

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

GLM-4.5-Air

31.1

69
MMLU
35
68
GPQA
34
66
SuperGPQA
32
64
OpenBookQA
30
67
MMLU-Pro
51
5
HLE
4
60
FrontierScience
37

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

GLM-4.5-Air

68

80
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

GLM-4.5-Air

59.1

80
MGSM
63
75
MMLU-ProX
57

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

GLM-4.5-Air

44.4

68
AIME 2023
35
70
AIME 2024
37
72
AIME 2025
36
64
HMMT Feb 2023
31
66
HMMT Feb 2024
33
65
HMMT Feb 2025
32
67
BRUMO 2025
34
72
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 72 and 36.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 31.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 14.6. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 44.4. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 42.6. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 30.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Ministral 3 14B or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 39.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 59.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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