Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Kimi K2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 34 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Kimi K2's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 40.9 against 30.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 47 to 32.
Pick Kimi K2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Kimi K2
29.3
Ministral 3 3B
22.9
Kimi K2
12.8
Ministral 3 3B
6.2
Kimi K2
39.5
Ministral 3 3B
30.4
Kimi K2
40.9
Ministral 3 3B
30.1
Kimi K2
29.3
Ministral 3 3B
24.5
Kimi K2
67
Ministral 3 3B
67
Kimi K2
59.7
Ministral 3 3B
59.7
Kimi K2
42.7
Ministral 3 3B
36
Kimi K2 is ahead overall, 34 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 47 and 32.
Kimi K2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 29.3 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 12.8 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 42.7 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 40.9 versus 30.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 29.3 versus 22.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.5 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2 and Ministral 3 3B are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 67 on average.
Kimi K2 and Ministral 3 3B are effectively tied for multilingual tasks here, both landing at 59.7 on average.
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