o1-preview vs Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

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

o1-preview is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 60. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-preview's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 64.6 against 35. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 69 to 36.

o1-preview gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

o1-preview

o1-preview

75.4

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
60
79
BrowseComp
61
71
OSWorld-Verified
55

Coding

o1-preview

o1-preview

64.6

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

86
HumanEval
62
65
SWE-bench Verified
39
60
LiveCodeBench
33
69
SWE-bench Pro
36

Multimodal & Grounded

o1-preview

o1-preview

75.6

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

72
MMMU-Pro
71
80
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

o1-preview

o1-preview

86.8

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

88
SimpleQA
70
86
MuSR
70
93
BBH
80
87
LongBench v2
66
83
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

o1-preview

o1-preview

71.3

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

92
MMLU
71
90
GPQA
70
88
SuperGPQA
68
86
OpenBookQA
66
80
MMLU-Pro
69
32
HLE
7
83
FrontierScience
62

Instruction Following

o1-preview

o1-preview

88

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

88
IFEval
81

Multilingual

o1-preview

o1-preview

87.4

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

90
MGSM
81
86
MMLU-ProX
76

Mathematics

o1-preview

o1-preview

93.5

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

94
AIME 2023
73
96
AIME 2024
75
95
AIME 2025
74
90
HMMT Feb 2023
69
92
HMMT Feb 2024
71
91
HMMT Feb 2025
70
93
BRUMO 2025
72
94
MATH-500
79

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview is ahead overall, 77 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 69 and 36.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.3 versus 52.1. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.6 versus 35. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 93.5 versus 75.2. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 86.8 versus 69.2. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.4 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, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.6 versus 71.5. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 81. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 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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