Llama 3.1 405B vs Ministral 3 14B

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

Llama 3.1 405B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 59 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Llama 3.1 405B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 40.6 against 33. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 60 to 70. Ministral 3 14B does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 3.1 405B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.

Agentic

Llama 3.1 405B

Llama 3.1 405B

53.9

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

53
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
58
BrowseComp
55
52
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

Llama 3.1 405B

Llama 3.1 405B

40.6

Ministral 3 14B

33

62
HumanEval
58
46
SWE-bench Verified
37
37
LiveCodeBench
31
43
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Llama 3.1 405B

62.3

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

60
MMMU-Pro
70
65
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

Llama 3.1 405B

Llama 3.1 405B

68.3

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

68
SimpleQA
66
66
MuSR
64
82
BBH
74
68
LongBench v2
60
65
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Llama 3.1 405B

Llama 3.1 405B

53.2

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

70
MMLU
69
70
GPQA
68
68
SuperGPQA
66
66
OpenBookQA
64
71
MMLU-Pro
67
7
HLE
5
65
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

Llama 3.1 405B

Llama 3.1 405B

86

Ministral 3 14B

80

86
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Llama 3.1 405B

Llama 3.1 405B

80.1

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

84
MGSM
80
78
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

Llama 3.1 405B

Llama 3.1 405B

74.9

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

70
AIME 2023
68
72
AIME 2024
70
71
AIME 2025
72
66
HMMT Feb 2023
64
68
HMMT Feb 2024
66
67
HMMT Feb 2025
65
69
BRUMO 2025
67
82
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Llama 3.1 405B or Ministral 3 14B?

Llama 3.1 405B is ahead overall, 59 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 60 and 70.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Llama 3.1 405B or Ministral 3 14B?

Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.2 versus 50.1. Inside this category, FrontierScience is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Llama 3.1 405B or Ministral 3 14B?

Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 40.6 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Llama 3.1 405B or Ministral 3 14B?

Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.9 versus 69.7. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Llama 3.1 405B or Ministral 3 14B?

Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 68.3 versus 63.6. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Llama 3.1 405B or Ministral 3 14B?

Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 48.4. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Llama 3.1 405B or Ministral 3 14B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 62.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Llama 3.1 405B or Ministral 3 14B?

Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Llama 3.1 405B or Ministral 3 14B?

Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.1 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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