o1-pro vs Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

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

o1-pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 45 to 36. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-pro's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 69.9 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2024, 86 to 35. Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

o1-pro is also the more expensive model on tokens at $150.00 input / $600.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning). That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. o1-pro gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning).

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

o1-pro

o1-pro

39.7

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

38.5

40
Terminal-Bench 2.0
39
50
BrowseComp
41
32
OSWorld-Verified
36

Coding

o1-pro

o1-pro

23

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

15.2

23
SWE-bench Pro
14
Coming soon
HumanEval
24
Coming soon
SWE-bench Verified
17
Coming soon
LiveCodeBench
16

Multimodal & Grounded

o1-pro

o1-pro

48.5

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

33.4

48
MMMU-Pro
28
49
OfficeQA Pro
40

Reasoning

o1-pro

o1-pro

56.2

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

42.1

54
LongBench v2
44
59
MRCRv2
47
Coming soon
SimpleQA
32
Coming soon
MuSR
33
Coming soon
BBH
70

Knowledge

o1-pro

o1-pro

69.9

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

30

79
GPQA
29
63
FrontierScience
34
Coming soon
MMLU
30
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
27
Coming soon
OpenBookQA
25
Coming soon
MMLU-Pro
54
Coming soon
HLE
5

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
IFEval
70

Multilingual

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

o1-pro

52

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

61.7

52
MMLU-ProX
61
Coming soon
MGSM
63

Mathematics

o1-pro

o1-pro

86

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)

47.8

86
AIME 2024
35
Coming soon
AIME 2023
33
Coming soon
AIME 2025
34
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2023
29
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2024
31
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2025
30
Coming soon
BRUMO 2025
32
Coming soon
MATH-500
67

Frequently Asked Questions

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

o1-pro is ahead overall, 45 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 86 and 35.

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

o1-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.9 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

o1-pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 23 versus 15.2. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

o1-pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 47.8. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

o1-pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 42.1. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

o1-pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.7 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, o1-pro or Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)?

o1-pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.5 versus 33.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 52. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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