Mistral Large 2 vs Ministral 3 14B

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

Mistral Large 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 59 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mistral Large 2's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 41.8 against 33. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 56 to 70. Ministral 3 14B does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral Large 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.

Agentic

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

52.2

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

51
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
57
BrowseComp
55
50
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

41.8

Ministral 3 14B

33

60
HumanEval
58
49
SWE-bench Verified
37
38
LiveCodeBench
31
44
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Mistral Large 2

61

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

56
MMMU-Pro
70
67
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

67.5

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

66
SimpleQA
66
64
MuSR
64
82
BBH
74
66
LongBench v2
60
68
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

54.6

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

68
MMLU
69
68
GPQA
68
66
SuperGPQA
66
64
OpenBookQA
64
74
MMLU-Pro
67
12
HLE
5
65
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

83

Ministral 3 14B

80

83
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

79.1

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

81
MGSM
80
78
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

73.8

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

68
AIME 2023
68
70
AIME 2024
70
69
AIME 2025
72
64
HMMT Feb 2023
64
66
HMMT Feb 2024
66
65
HMMT Feb 2025
65
67
BRUMO 2025
67
82
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Mistral Large 2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Mistral Large 2 is ahead overall, 59 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 56 and 70.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral Large 2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.6 versus 50.1. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Large 2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.8 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Mistral Large 2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 73.8 versus 69.7. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Mistral Large 2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 63.6. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Mistral Large 2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.2 versus 48.4. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Mistral Large 2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 61. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Mistral Large 2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Mistral Large 2 or Ministral 3 14B?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.1 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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