Ministral 3 14B vs Qwen2.5-VL-32B

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 38. 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 43.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 72 to 44.

Ministral 3 14B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Qwen2.5-VL-32B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen2.5-VL-32B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

48.4

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

33.5

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
30
55
BrowseComp
41
44
OSWorld-Verified
32

Coding

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

33

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

14.3

58
HumanEval
35
37
SWE-bench Verified
17
31
LiveCodeBench
11
34
SWE-bench Pro
17

Multimodal & Grounded

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

70.5

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

52.2

70
MMMU-Pro
58
71
OfficeQA Pro
45

Reasoning

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

63.6

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

43.2

66
SimpleQA
41
64
MuSR
39
74
BBH
61
60
LongBench v2
42
60
MRCRv2
43

Knowledge

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

50.1

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

34.7

69
MMLU
43
68
GPQA
42
66
SuperGPQA
40
64
OpenBookQA
38
67
MMLU-Pro
53
5
HLE
2
60
FrontierScience
43

Instruction Following

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

80

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

67

80
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

76.8

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

60.4

80
MGSM
63
75
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Ministral 3 14B

Ministral 3 14B

69.7

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

49.7

68
AIME 2023
43
70
AIME 2024
45
72
AIME 2025
44
64
HMMT Feb 2023
39
66
HMMT Feb 2024
41
65
HMMT Feb 2025
40
67
BRUMO 2025
42
72
MATH-500
59

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 72 and 44.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 34.7. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Ministral 3 14B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 14.3. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Ministral 3 14B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 49.7. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Ministral 3 14B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.6 versus 43.2. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 33.5. 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, Ministral 3 14B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 52.2. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Ministral 3 14B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Ministral 3 14B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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