GLM-4.7 vs Ministral 3 8B

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

GLM-4.7 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 67 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GLM-4.7's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 80.2 against 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 86 to 28.

GLM-4.7 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 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B.

Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-4.7 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

GLM-4.7

66.1

Ministral 3 8B

28.9

67
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
72
BrowseComp
36
61
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

46.6

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

78
HumanEval
23
43
SWE-bench Verified
16
43
LiveCodeBench
15
51
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

70.5

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

66
MMMU-Pro
27
76
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

80.2

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

82
SimpleQA
28
80
MuSR
26
84
BBH
63
79
LongBench v2
38
78
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

61.8

Ministral 3 8B

28

86
MMLU
28
84
GPQA
27
82
SuperGPQA
25
80
OpenBookQA
23
74
MMLU-Pro
52
16
HLE
3
72
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

85

Ministral 3 8B

69

85
IFEval
69

Multilingual

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

79.1

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

81
MGSM
63
78
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

GLM-4.7

GLM-4.7

85

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

86
AIME 2023
30
88
AIME 2024
32
87
AIME 2025
33
82
HMMT Feb 2023
26
84
HMMT Feb 2024
28
83
HMMT Feb 2025
27
85
BRUMO 2025
29
85
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

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

GLM-4.7 is ahead overall, 67 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 86 and 28.

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

GLM-4.7 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.8 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

GLM-4.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 46.6 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 or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 85 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 or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.2 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 or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.1 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 or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 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 or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 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 or Ministral 3 8B?

GLM-4.7 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.1 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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