Ministral 3 14B vs Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

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.

Quick Verdict

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.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

31.8

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
35
55
BrowseComp
32
44
OSWorld-Verified
28

Coding

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

Ministral 3 14B

33

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

40

58
HumanEval
54.8
37
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
31
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
34
SWE-bench Pro
40

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

35.5

70
MMMU-Pro
35
71
OfficeQA Pro
36

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

38.6

66
SimpleQA
Coming soon
64
MuSR
Coming soon
74
BBH
Coming soon
60
LongBench v2
39
60
MRCRv2
38

Knowledge

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

53

69
MMLU
71.4
68
GPQA
Coming soon
66
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
64
OpenBookQA
Coming soon
67
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
5
HLE
Coming soon
60
FrontierScience
53

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

80
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

42

80
MGSM
Coming soon
75
MMLU-ProX
42

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

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.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

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.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

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.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

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.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

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.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

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.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

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.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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