MiMo-V2-Flash vs Ministral 3 8B

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 32. 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 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 78 to 27.

MiMo-V2-Flash is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 8B 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.

Quick Verdict

Pick MiMo-V2-Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

61.8

Ministral 3 8B

28.9

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
65
BrowseComp
36
58
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

50

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

71
HumanEval
23
45
SWE-bench Verified
16
49
LiveCodeBench
15
52
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

75.8

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

78
MMMU-Pro
27
73
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

75.3

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

76
SimpleQA
28
74
MuSR
26
85
BBH
63
74
LongBench v2
38
73
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

58.8

Ministral 3 8B

28

79
MMLU
28
78
GPQA
27
76
SuperGPQA
25
74
OpenBookQA
23
72
MMLU-Pro
52
14
HLE
3
71
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

84

Ministral 3 8B

69

84
IFEval
69

Multilingual

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

79.1

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

83
MGSM
63
77
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

MiMo-V2-Flash

MiMo-V2-Flash

83.4

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

79
AIME 2023
30
81
AIME 2024
32
80
AIME 2025
33
75
HMMT Feb 2023
26
77
HMMT Feb 2024
28
76
HMMT Feb 2025
27
78
BRUMO 2025
29
90
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

MiMo-V2-Flash is ahead overall, 66 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 78 and 27.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.8 versus 28. 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 8B?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 50 versus 14.2. 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 8B?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.4 versus 43.3. 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 8B?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.3 versus 36.1. 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 8B?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.8 versus 28.9. 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, MiMo-V2-Flash or Ministral 3 8B?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.8 versus 32.4. 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 8B?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 69. 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 8B?

MiMo-V2-Flash has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.1 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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