Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs GLM-4.5-Air

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 35. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 71.5 against 39.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MuSR, 70 to 31.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while GLM-4.5-Air 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.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-4.5-Air only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

GLM-4.5-Air

30.3

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
28
61
BrowseComp
37
55
OSWorld-Verified
28

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

GLM-4.5-Air

14.6

62
HumanEval
27
39
SWE-bench Verified
15
33
LiveCodeBench
15
36
SWE-bench Pro
14

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

GLM-4.5-Air

39.6

71
MMMU-Pro
36
72
OfficeQA Pro
44

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

GLM-4.5-Air

42.6

70
SimpleQA
33
70
MuSR
31
80
BBH
63
66
LongBench v2
47
66
MRCRv2
51

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

GLM-4.5-Air

31.1

71
MMLU
35
70
GPQA
34
68
SuperGPQA
32
66
OpenBookQA
30
69
MMLU-Pro
51
7
HLE
4
62
FrontierScience
37

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

GLM-4.5-Air

68

81
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

GLM-4.5-Air

59.1

81
MGSM
63
76
MMLU-ProX
57

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

GLM-4.5-Air

44.4

73
AIME 2023
35
75
AIME 2024
37
74
AIME 2025
36
69
HMMT Feb 2023
31
71
HMMT Feb 2024
33
70
HMMT Feb 2025
32
72
BRUMO 2025
34
79
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MuSR, where the scores are 70 and 31.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 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 (Reasoning) or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 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 (Reasoning) or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 44.4. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 42.6. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 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 (Reasoning) or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 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 (Reasoning) or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 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 (Reasoning) or GLM-4.5-Air?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 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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