Ministral 3 14B vs GPT-OSS 120B

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 48. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 70.5 against 48.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 42.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-OSS 120B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

GPT-OSS 120B

44.8

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43
55
BrowseComp
50
44
OSWorld-Verified
43

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

GPT-OSS 120B

28.1

58
HumanEval
43
37
SWE-bench Verified
29
31
LiveCodeBench
25
34
SWE-bench Pro
31

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

GPT-OSS 120B

48.8

70
MMMU-Pro
42
71
OfficeQA Pro
57

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

GPT-OSS 120B

55.2

66
SimpleQA
49
64
MuSR
47
74
BBH
73
60
LongBench v2
58
60
MRCRv2
59

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

GPT-OSS 120B

41.5

69
MMLU
51
68
GPQA
50
66
SuperGPQA
48
64
OpenBookQA
46
67
MMLU-Pro
63
5
HLE
5
60
FrontierScience
49

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

GPT-OSS 120B

79

80
IFEval
79

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

GPT-OSS 120B

70.7

80
MGSM
72
75
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

GPT-OSS 120B

59.5

68
AIME 2023
51
70
AIME 2024
53
72
AIME 2025
52
64
HMMT Feb 2023
47
66
HMMT Feb 2024
49
65
HMMT Feb 2025
48
67
BRUMO 2025
50
72
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 42.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 41.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 28.1. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 59.5. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 55.2. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 44.8. 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 or GPT-OSS 120B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 48.8. 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-OSS 120B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 79. 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-OSS 120B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 70.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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