Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 36 to 31. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 15.2 against 7.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 24 to 16.
Pick Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
38.5
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
34
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
15.2
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
7.2
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
33.4
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
30.4
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
42.1
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
35.3
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
30
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
25.2
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
70
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
68
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
61.7
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
59.7
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
47.8
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
40.9
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 36 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 24 and 16.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 30 versus 25.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 15.2 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 47.8 versus 40.9. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 42.1 versus 35.3. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 38.5 versus 34. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 33.4 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 70 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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