Qwen2.5-VL-32B vs Ministral 3 3B

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

Qwen2.5-VL-32B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 38 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen2.5-VL-32B's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 52.2 against 30.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 58 to 25.

Ministral 3 3B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Qwen2.5-VL-32B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-VL-32B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.

Agentic

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

33.5

Ministral 3 3B

22.9

30
Terminal-Bench 2.0
19
41
BrowseComp
33
32
OSWorld-Verified
20

Coding

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

14.3

Ministral 3 3B

6.2

35
HumanEval
15
17
SWE-bench Verified
8
11
LiveCodeBench
7
17
SWE-bench Pro
5

Multimodal & Grounded

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

52.2

Ministral 3 3B

30.4

58
MMMU-Pro
25
45
OfficeQA Pro
37

Reasoning

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

43.2

Ministral 3 3B

30.1

41
SimpleQA
22
39
MuSR
20
61
BBH
57
42
LongBench v2
32
43
MRCRv2
35

Knowledge

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

34.7

Ministral 3 3B

24.5

43
MMLU
24
42
GPQA
23
40
SuperGPQA
21
38
OpenBookQA
19
53
MMLU-Pro
48
2
HLE
1
43
FrontierScience
28

Instruction Following

Tie

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

67

Ministral 3 3B

67

67
IFEval
67

Multilingual

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

60.4

Ministral 3 3B

59.7

63
MGSM
61
59
MMLU-ProX
59

Mathematics

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

49.7

Ministral 3 3B

36

43
AIME 2023
23
45
AIME 2024
25
44
AIME 2025
24
39
HMMT Feb 2023
19
41
HMMT Feb 2024
21
40
HMMT Feb 2025
20
42
BRUMO 2025
22
59
MATH-500
53

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Qwen2.5-VL-32B or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B is ahead overall, 38 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 58 and 25.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen2.5-VL-32B or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.7 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen2.5-VL-32B or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.3 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen2.5-VL-32B or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 49.7 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen2.5-VL-32B or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 43.2 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-VL-32B or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 33.5 versus 22.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Qwen2.5-VL-32B or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.2 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-VL-32B or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B and Ministral 3 3B are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 67 on average.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Qwen2.5-VL-32B or Ministral 3 3B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 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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