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 47. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 70.5 against 50.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 46.
Pick Ministral 3 14B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Z-1 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Ministral 3 14B
48.4
Z-1
42.2
Ministral 3 14B
33
Z-1
26.7
Ministral 3 14B
70.5
Z-1
50.5
Ministral 3 14B
63.6
Z-1
54.8
Ministral 3 14B
50.1
Z-1
42.7
Ministral 3 14B
80
Z-1
80
Ministral 3 14B
76.8
Z-1
72.7
Ministral 3 14B
69.7
Z-1
60.9
Ministral 3 14B is ahead overall, 55 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 46.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.1 versus 42.7. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33 versus 26.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 60.9. Inside this category, AIME 2025 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 54.8. Inside this category, SimpleQA 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 42.2. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 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 50.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B and Z-1 are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 80 on average.
Ministral 3 14B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 72.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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