Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs Llama 4 Behemoth

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 40. 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 agentic, where it averages 58.5 against 34.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 60 to 33.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Llama 4 Behemoth is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Llama 4 Behemoth.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 4 Behemoth only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

Llama 4 Behemoth

34.6

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
33
61
BrowseComp
38
55
OSWorld-Verified
34

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

Llama 4 Behemoth

14.1

62
HumanEval
40
39
SWE-bench Verified
15
33
LiveCodeBench
13
36
SWE-bench Pro
15

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

Llama 4 Behemoth

55.1

71
MMMU-Pro
60
72
OfficeQA Pro
49

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

Llama 4 Behemoth

47.1

70
SimpleQA
46
70
MuSR
44
80
BBH
62
66
LongBench v2
46
66
MRCRv2
46

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

Llama 4 Behemoth

36.7

71
MMLU
48
70
GPQA
47
68
SuperGPQA
45
66
OpenBookQA
43
69
MMLU-Pro
54
7
HLE
3
62
FrontierScience
43

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

Llama 4 Behemoth

68

81
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

Llama 4 Behemoth

62.8

81
MGSM
66
76
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

Llama 4 Behemoth

52.9

73
AIME 2023
48
75
AIME 2024
50
74
AIME 2025
49
69
HMMT Feb 2023
44
71
HMMT Feb 2024
46
70
HMMT Feb 2025
45
72
BRUMO 2025
47
79
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Llama 4 Behemoth?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 60 and 33.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Llama 4 Behemoth?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 36.7. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Llama 4 Behemoth?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 14.1. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Llama 4 Behemoth?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 52.9. 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 Llama 4 Behemoth?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 47.1. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Llama 4 Behemoth?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 34.6. 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 Llama 4 Behemoth?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 55.1. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Llama 4 Behemoth?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 68. 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 Llama 4 Behemoth?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 62.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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