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.
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.
Llama 3.1 405B
53.9
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Llama 3.1 405B
40.6
Ministral 3 14B
33
Llama 3.1 405B
62.3
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Llama 3.1 405B
68.3
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Llama 3.1 405B
53.2
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Llama 3.1 405B
86
Ministral 3 14B
80
Llama 3.1 405B
80.1
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Llama 3.1 405B
74.9
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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