Ministral 3 14B vs Nemotron-4 15B

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 49.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 46.

Ministral 3 14B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron-4 15B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron-4 15B 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-4 15B

41.3

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
37
55
BrowseComp
47
44
OSWorld-Verified
42

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Nemotron-4 15B

26.5

58
HumanEval
46
37
SWE-bench Verified
31
31
LiveCodeBench
22
34
SWE-bench Pro
30

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Nemotron-4 15B

49.6

70
MMMU-Pro
46
71
OfficeQA Pro
54

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Nemotron-4 15B

53.4

66
SimpleQA
52
64
MuSR
50
74
BBH
73
60
LongBench v2
52
60
MRCRv2
51

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Nemotron-4 15B

42.6

69
MMLU
54
68
GPQA
53
66
SuperGPQA
51
64
OpenBookQA
49
67
MMLU-Pro
63
5
HLE
5
60
FrontierScience
50

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Nemotron-4 15B

79

80
IFEval
79

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Nemotron-4 15B

72.4

80
MGSM
75
75
MMLU-ProX
71

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Nemotron-4 15B

61.1

68
AIME 2023
54
70
AIME 2024
56
72
AIME 2025
55
64
HMMT Feb 2023
50
66
HMMT Feb 2024
52
65
HMMT Feb 2025
51
67
BRUMO 2025
53
72
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Nemotron-4 15B?

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 46.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Nemotron-4 15B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 42.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Nemotron-4 15B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 26.5. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Nemotron-4 15B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 61.1. 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-4 15B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 53.4. 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-4 15B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 41.3. 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 Nemotron-4 15B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 49.6. 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 Nemotron-4 15B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 79. 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-4 15B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 72.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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