o1-preview vs Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

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

o1-preview is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 36. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-preview's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 64.6 against 15.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 86 to 24.

o1-preview gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

o1-preview

o1-preview

75.4

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

38.5

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
39
79
BrowseComp
41
71
OSWorld-Verified
36

Coding

o1-preview

o1-preview

64.6

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

15.2

86
HumanEval
24
65
SWE-bench Verified
17
60
LiveCodeBench
16
69
SWE-bench Pro
14

Multimodal & Grounded

o1-preview

o1-preview

75.6

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

33.4

72
MMMU-Pro
28
80
OfficeQA Pro
40

Reasoning

o1-preview

o1-preview

86.8

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

42.1

88
SimpleQA
32
86
MuSR
33
93
BBH
70
87
LongBench v2
44
83
MRCRv2
47

Knowledge

o1-preview

o1-preview

71.3

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

30

92
MMLU
30
90
GPQA
29
88
SuperGPQA
27
86
OpenBookQA
25
80
MMLU-Pro
54
32
HLE
5
83
FrontierScience
34

Instruction Following

o1-preview

o1-preview

88

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

70

88
IFEval
70

Multilingual

o1-preview

o1-preview

87.4

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

61.7

90
MGSM
63
86
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

o1-preview

o1-preview

93.5

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

47.8

94
AIME 2023
33
96
AIME 2024
35
95
AIME 2025
34
90
HMMT Feb 2023
29
92
HMMT Feb 2024
31
91
HMMT Feb 2025
30
93
BRUMO 2025
32
94
MATH-500
67

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o1-preview or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview is ahead overall, 77 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 86 and 24.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o1-preview or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.3 versus 30. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o1-preview or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.6 versus 15.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o1-preview or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 93.5 versus 47.8. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o1-preview or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 86.8 versus 42.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o1-preview or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.4 versus 38.5. 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, o1-preview or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.6 versus 33.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o1-preview or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 70. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o1-preview or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

o1-preview has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 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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