Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 31. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 71.5 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 62 to 16.
Pick Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) 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.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
58.5
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
34
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
35
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
7.2
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
71.5
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
30.4
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
69.2
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
35.3
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
52.1
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
25.2
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
81
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
68
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
77.8
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
59.7
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
75.2
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
40.9
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 62 and 16.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 25.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 40.9. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 35.3. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 34. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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