Ministral 3 14B vs Llama 4 Scout

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 42. 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 coding, where it averages 33 against 12.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 37 to 12.

Llama 4 Scout gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 4 Scout only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 10M context window.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

Llama 4 Scout

40.6

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
39
55
BrowseComp
48
44
OSWorld-Verified
37

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Llama 4 Scout

12.9

58
HumanEval
39
37
SWE-bench Verified
12
31
LiveCodeBench
11
34
SWE-bench Pro
15

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Llama 4 Scout

57.8

70
MMMU-Pro
60
71
OfficeQA Pro
55

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Llama 4 Scout

55

66
SimpleQA
45
64
MuSR
43
74
BBH
60
60
LongBench v2
64
60
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Llama 4 Scout

35.6

69
MMLU
47
68
GPQA
46
66
SuperGPQA
44
64
OpenBookQA
42
67
MMLU-Pro
51
5
HLE
2
60
FrontierScience
44

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Llama 4 Scout

68

80
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Llama 4 Scout

59.8

80
MGSM
63
75
MMLU-ProX
58

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Llama 4 Scout

51

68
AIME 2023
47
70
AIME 2024
49
72
AIME 2025
48
64
HMMT Feb 2023
43
66
HMMT Feb 2024
45
65
HMMT Feb 2025
44
67
BRUMO 2025
46
72
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 37 and 12.

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

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 35.6. 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 Scout?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 12.9. 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 Scout?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 51. 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 Scout?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 55. 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 Scout?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 40.6. 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 or Llama 4 Scout?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 57.8. 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 Scout?

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 Scout?

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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