Ministral 3 14B vs Mistral 7B v0.3

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.

Ministral 3 14B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Mistral 7B v0.3.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 7B v0.3 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

Mistral 7B v0.3

26.4

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
24
55
BrowseComp
32
44
OSWorld-Verified
25

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Mistral 7B v0.3

13.2

58
HumanEval
22
37
SWE-bench Verified
15
31
LiveCodeBench
14
34
SWE-bench Pro
12

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Mistral 7B v0.3

32.4

70
MMMU-Pro
27
71
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Mistral 7B v0.3

36.1

66
SimpleQA
28
64
MuSR
26
74
BBH
63
60
LongBench v2
38
60
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Mistral 7B v0.3

30

69
MMLU
30
68
GPQA
29
66
SuperGPQA
27
64
OpenBookQA
25
67
MMLU-Pro
54
5
HLE
5
60
FrontierScience
34

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Mistral 7B v0.3

68

80
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Mistral 7B v0.3

60.7

80
MGSM
62
75
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Mistral 7B v0.3

43

68
AIME 2023
30
70
AIME 2024
32
72
AIME 2025
31
64
HMMT Feb 2023
26
66
HMMT Feb 2024
28
65
HMMT Feb 2025
27
67
BRUMO 2025
29
72
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

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.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 30. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 13.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 43. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

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.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 26.4. 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 or Mistral 7B v0.3?

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.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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