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 35. 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 35.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 35. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Ministral 3 14B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1.
Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
31.8
Ministral 3 14B
33
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
40
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
35.5
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
38.6
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
53
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Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
42
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 35.
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53 versus 50.1. Inside this category, FrontierScience is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 40 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro 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 38.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 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 31.8. Inside this category, BrowseComp 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 35.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro 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 42. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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