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

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 56. 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 agentic, where it averages 58.5 against 51.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 39 to 20. GPT-4o does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4o is also the more expensive model on tokens at $2.50 input / $10.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning). That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while GPT-4o 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-4o only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority or 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-4o

51.2

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
49
61
BrowseComp
59
55
OSWorld-Verified
48

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

GPT-4o

32.2

62
HumanEval
58
39
SWE-bench Verified
20
33
LiveCodeBench
38
36
SWE-bench Pro
29

Multimodal & Grounded

GPT-4o

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

GPT-4o

72.2

71
MMMU-Pro
74
72
OfficeQA Pro
70

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

GPT-4o

64.6

70
SimpleQA
64
70
MuSR
62
80
BBH
82
66
LongBench v2
62
66
MRCRv2
63

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

GPT-4o

47.4

71
MMLU
66
70
GPQA
66
68
SuperGPQA
64
66
OpenBookQA
62
69
MMLU-Pro
64
7
HLE
1
62
FrontierScience
58

Instruction Following

GPT-4o

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

GPT-4o

82

81
IFEval
82

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

GPT-4o

75.5

81
MGSM
82
76
MMLU-ProX
72

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

GPT-4o

71.8

73
AIME 2023
66
75
AIME 2024
68
74
AIME 2025
67
69
HMMT Feb 2023
62
71
HMMT Feb 2024
64
70
HMMT Feb 2025
63
72
BRUMO 2025
65
79
MATH-500
80

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 39 and 20.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 47.4. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 32.2. 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-4o?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 71.8. 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-4o?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 64.6. 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-4o?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 51.2. 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-4o?

GPT-4o has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.2 versus 71.5. 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-4o?

GPT-4o has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 81. 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-4o?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 75.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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