Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs Nemotron 3 Super 100B

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) finishes one point ahead overall, 60 to 59. 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 14B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 71.5 against 60.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 71 to 55. Nemotron 3 Super 100B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Super 100B 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. Nemotron 3 Super 100B gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Super 100B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

56.6

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
56
61
BrowseComp
61
55
OSWorld-Verified
54

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

41.3

62
HumanEval
57
39
SWE-bench Verified
44
33
LiveCodeBench
38
36
SWE-bench Pro
44

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

60.4

71
MMMU-Pro
55
72
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

69.5

70
SimpleQA
62
70
MuSR
60
80
BBH
83
66
LongBench v2
75
66
MRCRv2
75

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

52.8

71
MMLU
65
70
GPQA
64
68
SuperGPQA
62
66
OpenBookQA
60
69
MMLU-Pro
72
7
HLE
13
62
FrontierScience
63

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

84

81
IFEval
84

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

79.5

81
MGSM
84
76
MMLU-ProX
77

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

72.6

73
AIME 2023
65
75
AIME 2024
67
74
AIME 2025
66
69
HMMT Feb 2023
61
71
HMMT Feb 2024
63
70
HMMT Feb 2025
62
72
BRUMO 2025
64
79
MATH-500
83

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 59. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 71 and 55.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.8 versus 52.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.3 versus 35. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 72.6. 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 Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.5 versus 69.2. 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 Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 56.6. 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 Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 60.4. 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 Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 81. 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 Nemotron 3 Super 100B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.5 versus 77.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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