GLM-4.7-Flash vs Ministral 3 8B

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

GLM-4.7-Flash is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GLM-4.7-Flash's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 69.7 against 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 64 to 26.

GLM-4.7-Flash is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 8B 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. GLM-4.7-Flash gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B.

Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-4.7-Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

GLM-4.7-Flash

GLM-4.7-Flash

61.3

Ministral 3 8B

28.9

64
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
63
BrowseComp
36
57
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

GLM-4.7-Flash

GLM-4.7-Flash

45.9

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

58
HumanEval
23
40
SWE-bench Verified
16
45
LiveCodeBench
15
48
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

GLM-4.7-Flash

GLM-4.7-Flash

62.5

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

58
MMMU-Pro
27
68
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

GLM-4.7-Flash

GLM-4.7-Flash

69.7

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

63
SimpleQA
28
61
MuSR
26
86
BBH
63
72
LongBench v2
38
76
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

GLM-4.7-Flash

GLM-4.7-Flash

54.1

Ministral 3 8B

28

66
MMLU
28
65
GPQA
27
63
SuperGPQA
25
61
OpenBookQA
23
74
MMLU-Pro
52
15
HLE
3
63
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

GLM-4.7-Flash

GLM-4.7-Flash

84

Ministral 3 8B

69

84
IFEval
69

Multilingual

GLM-4.7-Flash

GLM-4.7-Flash

81.8

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

85
MGSM
63
80
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

GLM-4.7-Flash

GLM-4.7-Flash

74

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

66
AIME 2023
30
68
AIME 2024
32
67
AIME 2025
33
62
HMMT Feb 2023
26
64
HMMT Feb 2024
28
63
HMMT Feb 2025
27
65
BRUMO 2025
29
85
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GLM-4.7-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7-Flash is ahead overall, 62 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 64 and 26.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GLM-4.7-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7-Flash has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GLM-4.7-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7-Flash has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 45.9 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GLM-4.7-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7-Flash has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GLM-4.7-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7-Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 36.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GLM-4.7-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7-Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.3 versus 28.9. 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-4.7-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7-Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.5 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GLM-4.7-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7-Flash has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 69. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GLM-4.7-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7-Flash has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 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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