Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

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 33. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 71.5 against 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 62 to 17.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

34.1

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
34
61
BrowseComp
37
55
OSWorld-Verified
32

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

8.2

62
HumanEval
17
39
SWE-bench Verified
10
33
LiveCodeBench
9
36
SWE-bench Pro
7

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

32.4

71
MMMU-Pro
27
72
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

38.4

70
SimpleQA
29
70
MuSR
31
80
BBH
67
66
LongBench v2
39
66
MRCRv2
42

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

27

71
MMLU
27
70
GPQA
26
68
SuperGPQA
24
66
OpenBookQA
22
69
MMLU-Pro
51
7
HLE
2
62
FrontierScience
31

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

72

81
IFEval
72

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

60.7

81
MGSM
62
76
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

42.3

73
AIME 2023
28
75
AIME 2024
30
74
AIME 2025
29
69
HMMT Feb 2023
24
71
HMMT Feb 2024
26
70
HMMT Feb 2025
25
72
BRUMO 2025
27
79
MATH-500
61

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 62 and 17.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 27. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 8.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 42.3. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 38.4. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 34.1. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 32.4. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 72. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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