o3 vs Ministral 3 14B

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

o3 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 70 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o3's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 69.9 against 48.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 58 to 34.

o3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $10.00 input / $40.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 14B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. o3 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. o3 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.

Quick Verdict

Pick o3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

o3

o3

69.9

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

71
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
75
BrowseComp
55
65
OSWorld-Verified
44

Coding

o3

o3

49.1

Ministral 3 14B

33

78
HumanEval
58
50
SWE-bench Verified
37
40
LiveCodeBench
31
58
SWE-bench Pro
34

Multimodal & Grounded

o3

o3

72.3

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

70
MMMU-Pro
70
75
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

o3

o3

82.6

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

84
SimpleQA
66
82
MuSR
64
86
BBH
74
82
LongBench v2
60
81
MRCRv2
60

Knowledge

o3

o3

66

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

86
MMLU
69
87
GPQA
68
85
SuperGPQA
66
83
OpenBookQA
64
75
MMLU-Pro
67
24
HLE
5
77
FrontierScience
60

Instruction Following

o3

o3

85

Ministral 3 14B

80

85
IFEval
80

Multilingual

o3

o3

81.1

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

83
MGSM
80
80
MMLU-ProX
75

Mathematics

o3

o3

87.5

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

88
AIME 2023
68
90
AIME 2024
70
89
AIME 2025
72
84
HMMT Feb 2023
64
86
HMMT Feb 2024
66
85
HMMT Feb 2025
65
87
BRUMO 2025
67
88
MATH-500
72

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o3 or Ministral 3 14B?

o3 is ahead overall, 70 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 58 and 34.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o3 or Ministral 3 14B?

o3 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 50.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o3 or Ministral 3 14B?

o3 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.1 versus 33. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o3 or Ministral 3 14B?

o3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 87.5 versus 69.7. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o3 or Ministral 3 14B?

o3 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 82.6 versus 63.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o3 or Ministral 3 14B?

o3 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.9 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, o3 or Ministral 3 14B?

o3 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.3 versus 70.5. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o3 or Ministral 3 14B?

o3 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o3 or Ministral 3 14B?

o3 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.1 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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