Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs Nova Pro

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 38. 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 41.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 71 to 37.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nova Pro 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. Nova Pro 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

Nova Pro

33.3

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
31
61
BrowseComp
39
55
OSWorld-Verified
32

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

Nova Pro

17.2

62
HumanEval
33
39
SWE-bench Verified
19
33
LiveCodeBench
14
36
SWE-bench Pro
20

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

Nova Pro

41.1

71
MMMU-Pro
37
72
OfficeQA Pro
46

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

Nova Pro

46.3

70
SimpleQA
39
70
MuSR
37
80
BBH
63
66
LongBench v2
51
66
MRCRv2
51

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

Nova Pro

34.2

71
MMLU
41
70
GPQA
40
68
SuperGPQA
38
66
OpenBookQA
36
69
MMLU-Pro
53
7
HLE
4
62
FrontierScience
41

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

Nova Pro

66

81
IFEval
66

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

Nova Pro

60.4

81
MGSM
61
76
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

Nova Pro

48.6

73
AIME 2023
41
75
AIME 2024
43
74
AIME 2025
42
69
HMMT Feb 2023
37
71
HMMT Feb 2024
39
70
HMMT Feb 2025
38
72
BRUMO 2025
40
79
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Nova Pro?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 71 and 37.

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

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 34.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Nova Pro?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 17.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Nova Pro?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 48.6. 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 Nova Pro?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 46.3. 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 Nova Pro?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 33.3. 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 Nova Pro?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 41.1. 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 Nova Pro?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 66. 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 Nova Pro?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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