o1-preview vs Ministral 3 14B

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

o1-preview is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-preview's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 64.6 against 33. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 69 to 34.

o1-preview is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 14B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. o1-preview gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

o1-preview

o1-preview

75.4

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
79
BrowseComp
55
71
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

o1-preview

o1-preview

64.6

Ministral 3 14B

33

86
HumanEval
58
65
SWE-bench Verified
37
60
LiveCodeBench
31
69
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

o1-preview

o1-preview

75.6

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

72
MMMU-Pro
70
80
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

o1-preview

o1-preview

86.8

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

88
SimpleQA
66
86
MuSR
64
93
BBH
74
87
LongBench v2
60
83
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

o1-preview

o1-preview

71.3

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

92
MMLU
69
90
GPQA
68
88
SuperGPQA
66
86
OpenBookQA
64
80
MMLU-Pro
67
32
HLE
5
83
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

o1-preview

o1-preview

88

Ministral 3 14B

80

88
IFEval
80

Multilingual

o1-preview

o1-preview

87.4

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

90
MGSM
80
86
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

o1-preview

o1-preview

93.5

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

94
AIME 2023
68
96
AIME 2024
70
95
AIME 2025
72
90
HMMT Feb 2023
64
92
HMMT Feb 2024
66
91
HMMT Feb 2025
65
93
BRUMO 2025
67
94
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B?

o1-preview is ahead overall, 77 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 69 and 34.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B?

o1-preview has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.3 versus 50.1. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B?

o1-preview has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.6 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B?

o1-preview has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 93.5 versus 69.7. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B?

o1-preview has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 86.8 versus 63.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B?

o1-preview has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.4 versus 48.4. 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, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B?

o1-preview has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.6 versus 70.5. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B?

o1-preview has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o1-preview or Ministral 3 14B?

o1-preview has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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