GLM-4.5 vs Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

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

GLM-4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 36 to 31. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GLM-4.5's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 41 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 29 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 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 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

31.3

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

34

28
Terminal-Bench 2.0
33
37
BrowseComp
37
31
OSWorld-Verified
33

Coding

GLM-4.5

GLM-4.5

14.4

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

7.2

29
HumanEval
16
18
SWE-bench Verified
9
13
LiveCodeBench
8
15
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

GLM-4.5

GLM-4.5

41

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

30.4

36
MMMU-Pro
25
47
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

GLM-4.5

GLM-4.5

43.8

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

35.3

35
SimpleQA
26
33
MuSR
26
61
BBH
63
48
LongBench v2
37
52
MRCRv2
40

Knowledge

GLM-4.5

GLM-4.5

32

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

25.2

37
MMLU
25
36
GPQA
24
34
SuperGPQA
22
32
OpenBookQA
20
51
MMLU-Pro
49
3
HLE
1
40
FrontierScience
29

Instruction Following

Tie

GLM-4.5

68

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

68

68
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

GLM-4.5

58.1

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

59.7

60
MGSM
61
57
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

GLM-4.5

GLM-4.5

45.5

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

40.9

37
AIME 2023
27
39
AIME 2024
29
38
AIME 2025
28
33
HMMT Feb 2023
23
35
HMMT Feb 2024
25
34
HMMT Feb 2025
24
36
BRUMO 2025
26
57
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

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

GLM-4.5 is ahead overall, 36 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 29 and 16.

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

GLM-4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 32 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 or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

GLM-4.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.4 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 or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

GLM-4.5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 45.5 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 or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

GLM-4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 43.8 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 or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 34 versus 31.3. 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 or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

GLM-4.5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 41 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 or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

GLM-4.5 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 or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.7 versus 58.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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