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

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

GLM-4.5-Air is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 35 to 31. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GLM-4.5-Air's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 39.6 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 27 to 16. Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Ministral 3 3B (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 GLM-4.5-Air if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

GLM-4.5-Air

30.3

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

34

28
Terminal-Bench 2.0
33
37
BrowseComp
37
28
OSWorld-Verified
33

Coding

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

14.6

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

7.2

27
HumanEval
16
15
SWE-bench Verified
9
15
LiveCodeBench
8
14
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

39.6

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

30.4

36
MMMU-Pro
25
44
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

42.6

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

35.3

33
SimpleQA
26
31
MuSR
26
63
BBH
63
47
LongBench v2
37
51
MRCRv2
40

Knowledge

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

31.1

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

25.2

35
MMLU
25
34
GPQA
24
32
SuperGPQA
22
30
OpenBookQA
20
51
MMLU-Pro
49
4
HLE
1
37
FrontierScience
29

Instruction Following

Tie

GLM-4.5-Air

68

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

68

68
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

GLM-4.5-Air

59.1

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

59.7

63
MGSM
61
57
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

44.4

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

40.9

35
AIME 2023
27
37
AIME 2024
29
36
AIME 2025
28
31
HMMT Feb 2023
23
33
HMMT Feb 2024
25
32
HMMT Feb 2025
24
34
BRUMO 2025
26
57
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

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

GLM-4.5-Air is ahead overall, 35 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 27 and 16.

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

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 31.1 versus 25.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.6 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 44.4 versus 40.9. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 42.6 versus 35.3. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 34 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, GLM-4.5-Air or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.6 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

GLM-4.5-Air and Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 68 on average.

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

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.7 versus 59.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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