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 33. 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 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 27.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 14B 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. Ministral 3 14B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking.
Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
34.1
Ministral 3 14B
33
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
8.2
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
32.4
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
38.4
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
27
Ministral 3 14B
80
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
72
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
60.7
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
42.3
Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 27.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 27. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 8.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 42.3. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 38.4. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 34.1. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 72. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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