Qwen2.5-1M vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Qwen2.5-1M is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen2.5-1M's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 80.9 against 30.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2023, 85 to 23.

Qwen2.5-1M gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 3B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-1M 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

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

64.7

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

65
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
72
BrowseComp
33
59
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

44.8

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

76
HumanEval
15
47
SWE-bench Verified
8
40
LiveCodeBench
7
49
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

68.4

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

63
MMMU-Pro
25
75
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

80.9

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

81
SimpleQA
22
79
MuSR
20
82
BBH
57
82
LongBench v2
32
81
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

60.4

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

84
MMLU
24
83
GPQA
23
81
SuperGPQA
21
79
OpenBookQA
19
74
MMLU-Pro
48
10
HLE
1
74
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

84

Ministral 3 3B

67

84
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

80.4

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

81
MGSM
61
80
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

83.6

Ministral 3 3B

36

85
AIME 2023
23
87
AIME 2024
25
86
AIME 2025
24
81
HMMT Feb 2023
19
83
HMMT Feb 2024
21
82
HMMT Feb 2025
20
84
BRUMO 2025
22
83
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-1M is ahead overall, 66 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2023, where the scores are 85 and 23.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.8 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.6 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.7 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, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.4 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.4 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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