Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B vs Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

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

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 60. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 43.8 against 35. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 85 to 66. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

62.8

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
60
69
BrowseComp
61
58
OSWorld-Verified
55

Coding

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

43.8

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

66
HumanEval
62
42
SWE-bench Verified
39
41
LiveCodeBench
33
47
SWE-bench Pro
36

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

66.9

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

61
MMMU-Pro
71
74
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

77.2

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

71
SimpleQA
70
69
MuSR
70
85
BBH
80
81
LongBench v2
66
85
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

57

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

74
MMLU
71
73
GPQA
70
71
SuperGPQA
68
69
OpenBookQA
66
73
MMLU-Pro
69
15
HLE
7
67
FrontierScience
62

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

84

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

84
IFEval
81

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

79.7

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

81
MGSM
81
79
MMLU-ProX
76

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

78

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

74
AIME 2023
73
76
AIME 2024
75
75
AIME 2025
74
70
HMMT Feb 2023
69
72
HMMT Feb 2024
71
71
HMMT Feb 2025
70
73
BRUMO 2025
72
84
MATH-500
79

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is ahead overall, 64 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 85 and 66.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57 versus 52.1. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.8 versus 35. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 75.2. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 69.2. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.8 versus 58.5. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 66.9. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B 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, Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 versus 77.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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