Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Sibling matchup inside the Ministral 3 8B family.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) and Ministral 3 8B sit in the same Ministral 3 8B family. This page is less about two unrelated model lineages and more about how the siblings trade off on benchmark shape, token costs, and practical limits like context window.
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 28.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 39 to 26.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Ministral 3 8B 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) makes more sense if agentic is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile, while Ministral 3 8B is the cleaner fit if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
38.5
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
15.2
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
33.4
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
42.1
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
30
Ministral 3 8B
28
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
70
Ministral 3 8B
69
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
61.7
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
47.8
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) and Ministral 3 8B are sibling variants in the Ministral 3 8B family, so the right pick depends on whether you value the better benchmark line, cheaper tokens, or the larger context window. Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is ahead overall 36 to 32.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 30 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 15.2 versus 14.2. 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 43.3. 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 28.9. 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 69. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) and Ministral 3 8B are effectively tied for multilingual tasks here, both landing at 61.7 on average.
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