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.
Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Phi-4
38.3
Ministral 3 14B
33
Phi-4
55
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Phi-4
46.8
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Phi-4
31.3
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Phi-4
53.8
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Phi-4
67.2
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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