Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Nemotron-4 15B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 47 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Nemotron-4 15B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 61.1 against 36. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 46 to 15.
Ministral 3 3B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron-4 15B.
Pick Nemotron-4 15B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.
Nemotron-4 15B
41.3
Ministral 3 3B
22.9
Nemotron-4 15B
26.5
Ministral 3 3B
6.2
Nemotron-4 15B
49.6
Ministral 3 3B
30.4
Nemotron-4 15B
53.4
Ministral 3 3B
30.1
Nemotron-4 15B
42.6
Ministral 3 3B
24.5
Nemotron-4 15B
79
Ministral 3 3B
67
Nemotron-4 15B
72.4
Ministral 3 3B
59.7
Nemotron-4 15B
61.1
Ministral 3 3B
36
Nemotron-4 15B is ahead overall, 47 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 46 and 15.
Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.6 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 26.5 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 61.1 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 53.4 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 41.3 versus 22.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.6 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.4 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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