Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
o4-mini (high) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 55. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
o4-mini (high)'s sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 77.4 against 63.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 74 to 58. 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.
o4-mini (high) gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B.
Pick o4-mini (high) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 14B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority.
o4-mini (high)
58.5
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
o4-mini (high)
38.7
Ministral 3 14B
33
o4-mini (high)
68.3
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
o4-mini (high)
77.4
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
o4-mini (high)
61.2
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
o4-mini (high)
83
Ministral 3 14B
80
o4-mini (high)
81.7
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
o4-mini (high)
82.9
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
o4-mini (high) is ahead overall, 63 to 55. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 74 and 58.
o4-mini (high) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.2 versus 50.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o4-mini (high) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 38.7 versus 33. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o4-mini (high) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.9 versus 69.7. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o4-mini (high) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 63.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o4-mini (high) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 48.4. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 68.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o4-mini (high) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o4-mini (high) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 76.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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