o4-mini (high) vs Ministral 3 3B

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

o4-mini (high) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o4-mini (high)'s sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 77.4 against 30.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2023, 83 to 23.

o4-mini (high) gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 3B.

Quick Verdict

Pick o4-mini (high) 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.

Agentic

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

58.5

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
64
BrowseComp
33
55
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

38.7

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

74
HumanEval
15
45
SWE-bench Verified
8
34
LiveCodeBench
7
42
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

68.3

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

66
MMMU-Pro
25
71
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

77.4

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

80
SimpleQA
22
78
MuSR
20
83
BBH
57
75
LongBench v2
32
74
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

61.2

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

82
MMLU
24
82
GPQA
23
80
SuperGPQA
21
78
OpenBookQA
19
76
MMLU-Pro
48
13
HLE
1
73
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

83

Ministral 3 3B

67

83
IFEval
67

Multilingual

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

81.7

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

83
MGSM
61
81
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

82.9

Ministral 3 3B

36

83
AIME 2023
23
85
AIME 2024
25
84
AIME 2025
24
79
HMMT Feb 2023
19
81
HMMT Feb 2024
21
80
HMMT Feb 2025
20
82
BRUMO 2025
22
84
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o4-mini (high) or Ministral 3 3B?

o4-mini (high) is ahead overall, 63 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2023, where the scores are 83 and 23.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o4-mini (high) or Ministral 3 3B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.2 versus 24.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o4-mini (high) or Ministral 3 3B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 38.7 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o4-mini (high) or Ministral 3 3B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.9 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o4-mini (high) or Ministral 3 3B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o4-mini (high) or Ministral 3 3B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 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, o4-mini (high) or Ministral 3 3B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.3 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o4-mini (high) or Ministral 3 3B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o4-mini (high) or Ministral 3 3B?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 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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