Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Nova Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 38 to 31. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Nova Pro's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 46.3 against 35.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 33 to 16. Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nova Pro is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.
Pick Nova Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Nova Pro
33.3
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
34
Nova Pro
17.2
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
7.2
Nova Pro
41.1
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
30.4
Nova Pro
46.3
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
35.3
Nova Pro
34.2
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
25.2
Nova Pro
66
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
68
Nova Pro
60.4
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
59.7
Nova Pro
48.6
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning)
40.9
Nova Pro is ahead overall, 38 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 33 and 16.
Nova Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.2 versus 25.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 17.2 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 48.6 versus 40.9. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 46.3 versus 35.3. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 34 versus 33.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 41.1 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 3B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 68 versus 66. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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