Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) vs Qwen3 235B 2507

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 37. 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 41.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MuSR, 70 to 35.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen3 235B 2507 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. Qwen3 235B 2507 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

Qwen3 235B 2507

33.7

60
Terminal-Bench 2.0
33
61
BrowseComp
40
55
OSWorld-Verified
30

Coding

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

Qwen3 235B 2507

14.6

62
HumanEval
31
39
SWE-bench Verified
15
33
LiveCodeBench
10
36
SWE-bench Pro
19

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

Qwen3 235B 2507

41.6

71
MMMU-Pro
38
72
OfficeQA Pro
46

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

Qwen3 235B 2507

45.6

70
SimpleQA
37
70
MuSR
35
80
BBH
60
66
LongBench v2
52
66
MRCRv2
52

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

Qwen3 235B 2507

31.9

71
MMLU
39
70
GPQA
38
68
SuperGPQA
36
66
OpenBookQA
34
69
MMLU-Pro
51
7
HLE
1
62
FrontierScience
39

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

Qwen3 235B 2507

69

81
IFEval
69

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

Qwen3 235B 2507

60.4

81
MGSM
63
76
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

Qwen3 235B 2507

46.6

73
AIME 2023
39
75
AIME 2024
41
74
AIME 2025
40
69
HMMT Feb 2023
35
71
HMMT Feb 2024
37
70
HMMT Feb 2025
36
72
BRUMO 2025
38
79
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 37. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MuSR, where the scores are 70 and 35.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 31.9. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 14.6. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 46.6. 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 Qwen3 235B 2507?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 45.6. 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 Qwen3 235B 2507?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 33.7. 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 Qwen3 235B 2507?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 41.6. 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 Qwen3 235B 2507?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 69. 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 Qwen3 235B 2507?

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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