Ministral 3 14B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

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 45. 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 45.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 38.

Ministral 3 14B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B 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

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

39.6

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
38
55
BrowseComp
43
44
OSWorld-Verified
39

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

22

58
HumanEval
49
37
SWE-bench Verified
26
31
LiveCodeBench
16
34
SWE-bench Pro
27

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

45.2

70
MMMU-Pro
38
71
OfficeQA Pro
54

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

54

66
SimpleQA
54
64
MuSR
52
74
BBH
72
60
LongBench v2
51
60
MRCRv2
51

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

43.8

69
MMLU
57
68
GPQA
56
66
SuperGPQA
54
64
OpenBookQA
52
67
MMLU-Pro
65
5
HLE
1
60
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

78

80
IFEval
78

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

71.8

80
MGSM
75
75
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

63.7

68
AIME 2023
57
70
AIME 2024
59
72
AIME 2025
58
64
HMMT Feb 2023
53
66
HMMT Feb 2024
55
65
HMMT Feb 2025
54
67
BRUMO 2025
56
72
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 38.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 43.8. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 22. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 63.7. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 54. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 39.6. 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 45.2. 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 71.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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