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 32. 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 reasoning, where it averages 68.3 against 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 70 to 27.
Pick Llama 3.1 405B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Llama 3.1 405B
53.9
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Llama 3.1 405B
40.6
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Llama 3.1 405B
62.3
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Llama 3.1 405B
68.3
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Llama 3.1 405B
53.2
Ministral 3 8B
28
Llama 3.1 405B
86
Ministral 3 8B
69
Llama 3.1 405B
80.1
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Llama 3.1 405B
74.9
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Llama 3.1 405B is ahead overall, 59 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 70 and 27.
Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.2 versus 28. Inside this category, GPQA 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 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval 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 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 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 36.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA 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 28.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.3 versus 32.4. 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 69. 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 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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