Ministral 3 14B vs Mistral 8x7B

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 48. 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 48.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 42.

Ministral 3 14B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Mistral 8x7B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 8x7B 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 8x7B

41.1

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
40
55
BrowseComp
47
44
OSWorld-Verified
38

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Mistral 8x7B

25.8

58
HumanEval
55
37
SWE-bench Verified
28
31
LiveCodeBench
23
34
SWE-bench Pro
28

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Mistral 8x7B

48.3

70
MMMU-Pro
42
71
OfficeQA Pro
56

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Mistral 8x7B

60.3

66
SimpleQA
63
64
MuSR
61
74
BBH
76
60
LongBench v2
57
60
MRCRv2
53

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Mistral 8x7B

48.4

69
MMLU
65
68
GPQA
64
66
SuperGPQA
62
64
OpenBookQA
60
67
MMLU-Pro
65
5
HLE
8
60
FrontierScience
56

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Mistral 8x7B

78

80
IFEval
78

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Mistral 8x7B

72.1

80
MGSM
74
75
MMLU-ProX
71

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Mistral 8x7B

68.1

68
AIME 2023
65
70
AIME 2024
67
72
AIME 2025
66
64
HMMT Feb 2023
61
66
HMMT Feb 2024
63
65
HMMT Feb 2025
62
67
BRUMO 2025
64
72
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 8x7B?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 42.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 8x7B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 48.4. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 8x7B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 25.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 8x7B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 68.1. 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 8x7B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 60.3. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Mistral 8x7B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 41.1. 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 8x7B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 48.3. 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 8x7B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 78. 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 8x7B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 72.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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