MiMo-V2-Flash vs Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

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

MiMo-V2-Flash is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 31. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

MiMo-V2-Flash's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 75.8 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 71 to 16.

Quick Verdict

Pick MiMo-V2-Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

61.8

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

34

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
33
65
BrowseComp
37
58
OSWorld-Verified
33

Coding

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

50

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

7.2

71
HumanEval
16
45
SWE-bench Verified
9
49
LiveCodeBench
8
52
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

75.8

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

30.4

78
MMMU-Pro
25
73
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

75.3

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

35.3

76
SimpleQA
26
74
MuSR
26
85
BBH
63
74
LongBench v2
37
73
MRCRv2
40

Knowledge

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

58.8

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

25.2

79
MMLU
25
78
GPQA
24
76
SuperGPQA
22
74
OpenBookQA
20
72
MMLU-Pro
49
14
HLE
1
71
FrontierScience
29

Instruction Following

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

84

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

68

84
IFEval
68

Multilingual

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

79.1

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

59.7

83
MGSM
61
77
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

83.4

Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)

40.9

79
AIME 2023
27
81
AIME 2024
29
80
AIME 2025
28
75
HMMT Feb 2023
23
77
HMMT Feb 2024
25
76
HMMT Feb 2025
24
78
BRUMO 2025
26
90
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

MiMo-V2-Flash is ahead overall, 66 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 71 and 16.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.8 versus 25.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 50 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.4 versus 40.9. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.3 versus 35.3. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.8 versus 34. 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, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.8 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.1 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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