Ministral 3 14B vs Moonshot v1

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 47. 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 52.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 49.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Moonshot v1 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

Moonshot v1

42.2

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
39
55
BrowseComp
49
44
OSWorld-Verified
41

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Moonshot v1

26.4

58
HumanEval
45
37
SWE-bench Verified
34
31
LiveCodeBench
21
34
SWE-bench Pro
30

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Moonshot v1

52.6

70
MMMU-Pro
49
71
OfficeQA Pro
57

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Moonshot v1

55.5

66
SimpleQA
51
64
MuSR
49
74
BBH
73
60
LongBench v2
58
60
MRCRv2
56

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Moonshot v1

42.3

69
MMLU
53
68
GPQA
52
66
SuperGPQA
50
64
OpenBookQA
48
67
MMLU-Pro
64
5
HLE
5
60
FrontierScience
49

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Moonshot v1

77

80
IFEval
77

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Moonshot v1

69.8

80
MGSM
73
75
MMLU-ProX
68

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Moonshot v1

61

68
AIME 2023
53
70
AIME 2024
55
72
AIME 2025
54
64
HMMT Feb 2023
49
66
HMMT Feb 2024
51
65
HMMT Feb 2025
50
67
BRUMO 2025
52
72
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 49.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 42.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 26.4. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 61. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 55.5. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 42.2. 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 Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 52.6. 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 Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Moonshot v1?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 69.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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