Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs GPT-4 Turbo

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 35 against 17.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 39 to 5.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while GPT-4 Turbo 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 Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4 Turbo only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

GPT-4 Turbo

44.7

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
42
61
BrowseComp
54
55
OSWorld-Verified
41

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

GPT-4 Turbo

17.2

62
HumanEval
52
39
SWE-bench Verified
5
33
LiveCodeBench
23
36
SWE-bench Pro
14

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

GPT-4 Turbo

55.3

71
MMMU-Pro
53
72
OfficeQA Pro
58

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

GPT-4 Turbo

61

70
SimpleQA
58
70
MuSR
56
80
BBH
75
66
LongBench v2
62
66
MRCRv2
62

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

GPT-4 Turbo

41.1

71
MMLU
60
70
GPQA
60
68
SuperGPQA
58
66
OpenBookQA
56
69
MMLU-Pro
51
7
HLE
1
62
FrontierScience
52

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

GPT-4 Turbo

80

81
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

GPT-4 Turbo

68.5

81
MGSM
75
76
MMLU-ProX
65

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

GPT-4 Turbo

64.4

73
AIME 2023
60
75
AIME 2024
62
74
AIME 2025
61
69
HMMT Feb 2023
56
71
HMMT Feb 2024
58
70
HMMT Feb 2025
57
72
BRUMO 2025
59
79
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or GPT-4 Turbo?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 39 and 5.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or GPT-4 Turbo?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 41.1. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or GPT-4 Turbo?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 17.2. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or GPT-4 Turbo?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 64.4. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or GPT-4 Turbo?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 61. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or GPT-4 Turbo?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 44.7. 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, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or GPT-4 Turbo?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 55.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or GPT-4 Turbo?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 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 (Reasoning) or GPT-4 Turbo?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 68.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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