Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 36 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 38.5 against 26.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 39 to 24.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Mistral 7B v0.3 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. Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Mistral 7B v0.3.
Pick Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 7B v0.3 only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
38.5
Mistral 7B v0.3
26.4
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
15.2
Mistral 7B v0.3
13.2
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
33.4
Mistral 7B v0.3
32.4
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
42.1
Mistral 7B v0.3
36.1
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
30
Mistral 7B v0.3
30
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
70
Mistral 7B v0.3
68
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
61.7
Mistral 7B v0.3
60.7
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
47.8
Mistral 7B v0.3
43
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 36 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 39 and 24.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) and Mistral 7B v0.3 are effectively tied for knowledge tasks here, both landing at 30 on average.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 15.2 versus 13.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 47.8 versus 43. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 42.1 versus 36.1. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 38.5 versus 26.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 33.4 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 70 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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