Nemotron 3 Super 100B vs Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

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

Nemotron 3 Super 100B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 59 to 36. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Super 100B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 69.5 against 42.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 65 to 30.

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Super 100B 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. Nemotron 3 Super 100B gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 100B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

56.6

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

38.5

56
Terminal-Bench 2.0
39
61
BrowseComp
41
54
OSWorld-Verified
36

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

41.3

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

15.2

57
HumanEval
24
44
SWE-bench Verified
17
38
LiveCodeBench
16
44
SWE-bench Pro
14

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

60.4

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

33.4

55
MMMU-Pro
28
67
OfficeQA Pro
40

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

69.5

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

42.1

62
SimpleQA
32
60
MuSR
33
83
BBH
70
75
LongBench v2
44
75
MRCRv2
47

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

52.8

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

30

65
MMLU
30
64
GPQA
29
62
SuperGPQA
27
60
OpenBookQA
25
72
MMLU-Pro
54
13
HLE
5
63
FrontierScience
34

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

84

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

70

84
IFEval
70

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

79.5

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

61.7

84
MGSM
63
77
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

72.6

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

47.8

65
AIME 2023
33
67
AIME 2024
35
66
AIME 2025
34
61
HMMT Feb 2023
29
63
HMMT Feb 2024
31
62
HMMT Feb 2025
30
64
BRUMO 2025
32
83
MATH-500
67

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B is ahead overall, 59 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 65 and 30.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.8 versus 30. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.3 versus 15.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 47.8. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.5 versus 42.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.6 versus 38.5. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 33.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 70. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.5 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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