Qwen3.5 397B vs Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

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

Qwen3.5 397B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 62 versus 60. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Qwen3.5 397B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 59.3 against 52.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 56 to 71. 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.

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen3.5 397B 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 Qwen3.5 397B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B

56.9

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

58.5

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
60
62
BrowseComp
61
52
OSWorld-Verified
55

Coding

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

40.7

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

35

75
HumanEval
62
42
SWE-bench Verified
39
39
LiveCodeBench
33
42
SWE-bench Pro
36

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

Qwen3.5 397B

61.4

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

71.5

56
MMMU-Pro
71
68
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

75.9

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

69.2

80
SimpleQA
70
78
MuSR
70
82
BBH
80
72
LongBench v2
66
71
MRCRv2
66

Knowledge

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

59.3

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

52.1

83
MMLU
71
82
GPQA
70
80
SuperGPQA
68
78
OpenBookQA
66
73
MMLU-Pro
69
10
HLE
7
71
FrontierScience
62

Instruction Following

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

82

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

81

82
IFEval
81

Multilingual

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

78.8

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

77.8

82
MGSM
81
77
MMLU-ProX
76

Mathematics

Qwen3.5 397B

Qwen3.5 397B

81.6

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)

75.2

83
AIME 2023
73
85
AIME 2024
75
84
AIME 2025
74
79
HMMT Feb 2023
69
81
HMMT Feb 2024
71
80
HMMT Feb 2025
70
82
BRUMO 2025
72
81
MATH-500
79

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Qwen3.5 397B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B is ahead overall, 62 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 56 and 71.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen3.5 397B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.3 versus 52.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen3.5 397B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 40.7 versus 35. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen3.5 397B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 75.2. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen3.5 397B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.9 versus 69.2. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen3.5 397B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 56.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Qwen3.5 397B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen3.5 397B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 81. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Qwen3.5 397B or Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 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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