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 45. 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 52.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 37 to 9.
Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 3 70B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Llama 3 70B
41.2
Ministral 3 14B
33
Llama 3 70B
15.8
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Llama 3 70B
52.3
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Llama 3 70B
59.6
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Llama 3 70B
42.2
Ministral 3 14B
80
Llama 3 70B
77
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Llama 3 70B
67.5
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
Llama 3 70B
63.3
Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 37 and 9.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 42.2. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 15.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified 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 63.3. 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 59.6. 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 41.2. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 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 52.3. 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 77. 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 67.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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