Llama 4 Behemoth vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Llama 4 Behemoth is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 40 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Llama 4 Behemoth's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 55.1 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 60 to 25.

Ministral 3 3B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Llama 4 Behemoth.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 4 Behemoth if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.

Agentic

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

34.6

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

33
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
38
BrowseComp
33
34
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

14.1

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

40
HumanEval
15
15
SWE-bench Verified
8
13
LiveCodeBench
7
15
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

55.1

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

60
MMMU-Pro
25
49
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

47.1

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

46
SimpleQA
22
44
MuSR
20
62
BBH
57
46
LongBench v2
32
46
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

36.7

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

48
MMLU
24
47
GPQA
23
45
SuperGPQA
21
43
OpenBookQA
19
54
MMLU-Pro
48
3
HLE
1
43
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

68

Ministral 3 3B

67

68
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

62.8

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

66
MGSM
61
61
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

52.9

Ministral 3 3B

36

48
AIME 2023
23
50
AIME 2024
25
49
AIME 2025
24
44
HMMT Feb 2023
19
46
HMMT Feb 2024
21
45
HMMT Feb 2025
20
47
BRUMO 2025
22
60
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Llama 4 Behemoth or Ministral 3 3B?

Llama 4 Behemoth is ahead overall, 40 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 60 and 25.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Llama 4 Behemoth or Ministral 3 3B?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 36.7 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Llama 4 Behemoth or Ministral 3 3B?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.1 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Llama 4 Behemoth or Ministral 3 3B?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 52.9 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Llama 4 Behemoth or Ministral 3 3B?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 47.1 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Llama 4 Behemoth or Ministral 3 3B?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.6 versus 22.9. 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, Llama 4 Behemoth or Ministral 3 3B?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Llama 4 Behemoth or Ministral 3 3B?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 68 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Llama 4 Behemoth or Ministral 3 3B?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.8 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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