GPT-5 (medium) vs Ministral 3 3B

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

GPT-5 (medium) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 78 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GPT-5 (medium)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 66.1 against 6.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2023, 93 to 23.

GPT-5 (medium) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 3B 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 GPT-5 (medium) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

GPT-5 (medium)

GPT-5 (medium)

75.5

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
78
BrowseComp
33
72
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

GPT-5 (medium)

GPT-5 (medium)

66.1

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

83
HumanEval
15
67
SWE-bench Verified
8
60
LiveCodeBench
7
72
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

GPT-5 (medium)

GPT-5 (medium)

88.1

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

89
MMMU-Pro
25
87
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

GPT-5 (medium)

GPT-5 (medium)

84.3

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

87
SimpleQA
22
85
MuSR
20
92
BBH
57
81
LongBench v2
32
81
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

GPT-5 (medium)

GPT-5 (medium)

69.8

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

91
MMLU
24
89
GPQA
23
87
SuperGPQA
21
85
OpenBookQA
19
81
MMLU-Pro
48
27
HLE
1
82
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

GPT-5 (medium)

GPT-5 (medium)

88

Ministral 3 3B

67

88
IFEval
67

Multilingual

GPT-5 (medium)

GPT-5 (medium)

88.1

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

90
MGSM
61
87
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

GPT-5 (medium)

GPT-5 (medium)

92

Ministral 3 3B

36

93
AIME 2023
23
95
AIME 2024
25
94
AIME 2025
24
89
HMMT Feb 2023
19
91
HMMT Feb 2024
21
90
HMMT Feb 2025
20
92
BRUMO 2025
22
92
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GPT-5 (medium) or Ministral 3 3B?

GPT-5 (medium) is ahead overall, 78 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2023, where the scores are 93 and 23.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GPT-5 (medium) or Ministral 3 3B?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.8 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GPT-5 (medium) or Ministral 3 3B?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.1 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GPT-5 (medium) or Ministral 3 3B?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 92 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GPT-5 (medium) or Ministral 3 3B?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 84.3 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GPT-5 (medium) or Ministral 3 3B?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.5 versus 22.9. 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, GPT-5 (medium) or Ministral 3 3B?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 88.1 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GPT-5 (medium) or Ministral 3 3B?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GPT-5 (medium) or Ministral 3 3B?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 88.1 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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