Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 8B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 32 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Ministral 3 8B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 14.2 against 6.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2025, 33 to 24.
Pick Ministral 3 8B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Ministral 3 3B
22.9
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Ministral 3 3B
6.2
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Ministral 3 3B
30.4
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Ministral 3 3B
30.1
Ministral 3 8B
28
Ministral 3 3B
24.5
Ministral 3 8B
69
Ministral 3 3B
67
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Ministral 3 3B
59.7
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Ministral 3 3B
36
Ministral 3 8B is ahead overall, 32 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2025, where the scores are 33 and 24.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 28 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.2 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 43.3 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 36.1 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 28.9 versus 22.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 32.4 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 69 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B 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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