Ministral 3 14B vs Llama 4 Maverick

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 43. 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 mathematics, where it averages 69.7 against 51.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 72 to 47.

Llama 4 Maverick gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 4 Maverick only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 1M context window.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

Llama 4 Maverick

40.9

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
37
55
BrowseComp
51
44
OSWorld-Verified
38

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Llama 4 Maverick

15.7

58
HumanEval
38
37
SWE-bench Verified
13
31
LiveCodeBench
15
34
SWE-bench Pro
17

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Llama 4 Maverick

56.8

70
MMMU-Pro
59
71
OfficeQA Pro
54

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Llama 4 Maverick

54

66
SimpleQA
44
64
MuSR
42
74
BBH
63
60
LongBench v2
63
60
MRCRv2
63

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Llama 4 Maverick

36.5

69
MMLU
46
68
GPQA
45
66
SuperGPQA
43
64
OpenBookQA
41
67
MMLU-Pro
53
5
HLE
4
60
FrontierScience
45

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Llama 4 Maverick

68

80
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Llama 4 Maverick

59.8

80
MGSM
63
75
MMLU-ProX
58

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Llama 4 Maverick

51.3

68
AIME 2023
46
70
AIME 2024
48
72
AIME 2025
47
64
HMMT Feb 2023
42
66
HMMT Feb 2024
44
65
HMMT Feb 2025
43
67
BRUMO 2025
45
72
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 72 and 47.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 36.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 15.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 51.3. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 54. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 40.9. 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, Ministral 3 14B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 56.8. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 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 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 59.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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