o3-pro vs Ministral 3 3B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

o3-pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o3-pro's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 83.6 against 30.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2023, 90 to 23.

o3-pro is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 3B 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. o3-pro gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 3B.

Quick Verdict

Pick o3-pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

o3-pro

o3-pro

70.4

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

69
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
76
BrowseComp
33
68
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

o3-pro

o3-pro

49.2

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

80
HumanEval
15
46
SWE-bench Verified
8
44
LiveCodeBench
7
55
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

o3-pro

o3-pro

74.1

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

70
MMMU-Pro
25
79
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

o3-pro

o3-pro

83.6

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

86
SimpleQA
22
84
MuSR
20
89
BBH
57
81
LongBench v2
32
81
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

o3-pro

o3-pro

67.1

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

88
MMLU
24
89
GPQA
23
87
SuperGPQA
21
85
OpenBookQA
19
75
MMLU-Pro
48
26
HLE
1
77
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

o3-pro

o3-pro

82

Ministral 3 3B

67

82
IFEval
67

Multilingual

o3-pro

o3-pro

81.1

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

83
MGSM
61
80
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

o3-pro

o3-pro

89

Ministral 3 3B

36

90
AIME 2023
23
92
AIME 2024
25
91
AIME 2025
24
86
HMMT Feb 2023
19
88
HMMT Feb 2024
21
87
HMMT Feb 2025
20
89
BRUMO 2025
22
89
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o3-pro or Ministral 3 3B?

o3-pro is ahead overall, 71 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2023, where the scores are 90 and 23.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o3-pro or Ministral 3 3B?

o3-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.1 versus 24.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o3-pro or Ministral 3 3B?

o3-pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.2 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o3-pro or Ministral 3 3B?

o3-pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o3-pro or Ministral 3 3B?

o3-pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 83.6 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o3-pro or Ministral 3 3B?

o3-pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.4 versus 22.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, o3-pro or Ministral 3 3B?

o3-pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o3-pro or Ministral 3 3B?

o3-pro has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o3-pro or Ministral 3 3B?

o3-pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.1 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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