Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B vs Ministral 3 14B

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

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 61 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 44.2 against 33. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 77 to 60. 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.

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.3

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

55
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
59
BrowseComp
55
53
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

44.2

Ministral 3 14B

33

59
HumanEval
58
46
SWE-bench Verified
37
42
LiveCodeBench
31
46
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

60.4

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

55
MMMU-Pro
70
67
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

71.8

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

64
SimpleQA
66
62
MuSR
64
88
BBH
74
77
LongBench v2
60
77
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

55.8

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

68
MMLU
69
67
GPQA
68
65
SuperGPQA
66
63
OpenBookQA
64
75
MMLU-Pro
67
16
HLE
5
66
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

86

Ministral 3 14B

80

86
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

81.5

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

86
MGSM
80
79
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

74.6

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

67
AIME 2023
68
69
AIME 2024
70
68
AIME 2025
72
63
HMMT Feb 2023
64
65
HMMT Feb 2024
66
64
HMMT Feb 2025
65
66
BRUMO 2025
67
85
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Ministral 3 14B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is ahead overall, 61 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 77 and 60.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Ministral 3 14B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.8 versus 50.1. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Ministral 3 14B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Ministral 3 14B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.6 versus 69.7. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Ministral 3 14B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 71.8 versus 63.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Ministral 3 14B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 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, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Ministral 3 14B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Ministral 3 14B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B or Ministral 3 14B?

Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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