Ministral 3 14B vs Phi-4

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 42. 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 reasoning, where it averages 63.6 against 31.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OfficeQA Pro, 71 to 38. Phi-4 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Ministral 3 14B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 16K for Phi-4.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

Phi-4

38.3

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
44
55
BrowseComp
35
44
OSWorld-Verified
34

Coding

Phi-4

Ministral 3 14B

33

Phi-4

55

58
HumanEval
82.6
37
SWE-bench Verified
Coming soon
31
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
34
SWE-bench Pro
55

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Phi-4

46.8

70
MMMU-Pro
54
71
OfficeQA Pro
38

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Phi-4

31.3

66
SimpleQA
Coming soon
64
MuSR
Coming soon
74
BBH
Coming soon
60
LongBench v2
30
60
MRCRv2
33

Knowledge

Phi-4

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Phi-4

53.8

69
MMLU
84.8
68
GPQA
56.1
66
SuperGPQA
Coming soon
64
OpenBookQA
Coming soon
67
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
5
HLE
Coming soon
60
FrontierScience
52

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

80
IFEval
Coming soon

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Phi-4

67.2

80
MGSM
80.6
75
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

68
AIME 2023
Coming soon
70
AIME 2024
Coming soon
72
AIME 2025
Coming soon
64
HMMT Feb 2023
Coming soon
66
HMMT Feb 2024
Coming soon
65
HMMT Feb 2025
Coming soon
67
BRUMO 2025
Coming soon
72
MATH-500
Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OfficeQA Pro, where the scores are 71 and 38.

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

Phi-4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.8 versus 50.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Phi-4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 55 versus 33. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or Phi-4?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 31.3. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Phi-4?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 38.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Phi-4?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 46.8. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Phi-4?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 67.2. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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