Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 14B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 55 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Ministral 3 14B's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 70.5 against 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 27.
Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Ministral 3 14B
33
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Ministral 3 8B
28
Ministral 3 14B
80
Ministral 3 8B
69
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 27.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 36.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 28.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 69. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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