Ministral 3 14B vs GPT-4.1 nano

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

Ministral 3 14B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 55 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Ministral 3 14B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 69.7 against 9.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2024, 70 to 9.8. GPT-4.1 nano does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4.1 nano is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 14B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. GPT-4.1 nano gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4.1 nano only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

GPT-4.1 nano

47.4

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
55
BrowseComp
62
44
OSWorld-Verified
42

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

GPT-4.1 nano

18

58
HumanEval
Coming soon
37
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
31
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
34
SWE-bench Pro
18

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

GPT-4.1 nano

59.3

70
MMMU-Pro
53
71
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

GPT-4.1 nano

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

GPT-4.1 nano

74.1

66
SimpleQA
Coming soon
64
MuSR
Coming soon
74
BBH
Coming soon
60
LongBench v2
75
60
MRCRv2
73

Knowledge

GPT-4.1 nano

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

GPT-4.1 nano

50.7

69
MMLU
80.1
68
GPQA
50.3
66
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
64
OpenBookQA
Coming soon
67
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
5
HLE
Coming soon
60
FrontierScience
51

Instruction Following

GPT-4.1 nano

Ministral 3 14B

80

GPT-4.1 nano

83.2

80
IFEval
83.2

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

GPT-4.1 nano

59

80
MGSM
Coming soon
75
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

GPT-4.1 nano

9.8

68
AIME 2023
Coming soon
70
AIME 2024
9.8
72
AIME 2025
Coming soon
64
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
66
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
65
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
67
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
72
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-4.1 nano?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 70 and 9.8.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-4.1 nano?

GPT-4.1 nano has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.7 versus 50.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-4.1 nano?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 18. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-4.1 nano?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 9.8. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-4.1 nano?

GPT-4.1 nano has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 63.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-4.1 nano?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 47.4. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-4.1 nano?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 59.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-4.1 nano?

GPT-4.1 nano has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83.2 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-4.1 nano?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 59. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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