Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs Moonshot v1

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 47. 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 52.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 71 to 49.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Moonshot v1 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 Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Moonshot v1 only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

Moonshot v1

42.2

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
39
61
BrowseComp
49
55
OSWorld-Verified
41

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

Moonshot v1

26.4

62
HumanEval
45
39
SWE-bench Verified
34
33
LiveCodeBench
21
36
SWE-bench Pro
30

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

Moonshot v1

52.6

71
MMMU-Pro
49
72
OfficeQA Pro
57

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

Moonshot v1

55.5

70
SimpleQA
51
70
MuSR
49
80
BBH
73
66
LongBench v2
58
66
MRCRv2
56

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

Moonshot v1

42.3

71
MMLU
53
70
GPQA
52
68
SuperGPQA
50
66
OpenBookQA
48
69
MMLU-Pro
64
7
HLE
5
62
FrontierScience
49

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

Moonshot v1

77

81
IFEval
77

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

Moonshot v1

69.8

81
MGSM
73
76
MMLU-ProX
68

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

Moonshot v1

61

73
AIME 2023
53
75
AIME 2024
55
74
AIME 2025
54
69
HMMT Feb 2023
49
71
HMMT Feb 2024
51
70
HMMT Feb 2025
50
72
BRUMO 2025
52
79
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 71 and 49.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 42.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 26.4. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 61. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 55.5. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 42.2. 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 (Reasoning) or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 52.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 69.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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