Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) finishes one point ahead overall, 36 to 35. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 38.5 against 32.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MATH-500, 67 to 57. MiniMax M1 80k does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M1 80k 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 8B (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 80K for MiniMax M1 80k.
Pick Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M1 80k only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
38.5
MiniMax M1 80k
32.1
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
15.2
MiniMax M1 80k
13.8
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
33.4
MiniMax M1 80k
39
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
42.1
MiniMax M1 80k
41.7
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
30
MiniMax M1 80k
31.3
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
70
MiniMax M1 80k
68
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
61.7
MiniMax M1 80k
59.1
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
47.8
MiniMax M1 80k
44.9
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 36 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MATH-500, where the scores are 67 and 57.
MiniMax M1 80k has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 31.3 versus 30. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 15.2 versus 13.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 47.8 versus 44.9. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 42.1 versus 41.7. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 38.5 versus 32.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
MiniMax M1 80k has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 39 versus 33.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 70 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 59.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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