Llama 4 Behemoth vs Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

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 31. 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 (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 3B (Reasoning) 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 (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

34.6

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

34

33
Terminal-Bench 2.0
33
38
BrowseComp
37
34
OSWorld-Verified
33

Coding

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

14.1

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

7.2

40
HumanEval
16
15
SWE-bench Verified
9
13
LiveCodeBench
8
15
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

55.1

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

30.4

60
MMMU-Pro
25
49
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

47.1

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

35.3

46
SimpleQA
26
44
MuSR
26
62
BBH
63
46
LongBench v2
37
46
MRCRv2
40

Knowledge

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

36.7

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

25.2

48
MMLU
25
47
GPQA
24
45
SuperGPQA
22
43
OpenBookQA
20
54
MMLU-Pro
49
3
HLE
1
43
FrontierScience
29

Instruction Following

Tie

Llama 4 Behemoth

68

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

68

68
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

62.8

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

59.7

66
MGSM
61
61
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

52.9

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

40.9

48
AIME 2023
27
50
AIME 2024
29
49
AIME 2025
28
44
HMMT Feb 2023
23
46
HMMT Feb 2024
25
45
HMMT Feb 2025
24
47
BRUMO 2025
26
60
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Llama 4 Behemoth is ahead overall, 40 to 31. 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 (Reasoning)?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 36.7 versus 25.2. 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 (Reasoning)?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.1 versus 7.2. 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 (Reasoning)?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 52.9 versus 40.9. 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 (Reasoning)?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 47.1 versus 35.3. 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 (Reasoning)?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.6 versus 34. Inside this category, BrowseComp 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 (Reasoning)?

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 (Reasoning)?

Llama 4 Behemoth and Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 68 on average.

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

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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