Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 8B and Mistral 7B v0.3 finish on the same overall score, so this is less about a single winner and more about where the edge shows up. The headline says tie; the benchmark table is where the real choice happens.
Mistral 7B v0.3's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 32.4 against 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BrowseComp, 36 to 32. Ministral 3 8B does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Ministral 3 8B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Mistral 7B v0.3.
Treat this as a split decision. Ministral 3 8B makes more sense if agentic is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window; Mistral 7B v0.3 is the better fit if knowledge is the priority.
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Mistral 7B v0.3
26.4
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Mistral 7B v0.3
13.2
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Mistral 7B v0.3
32.4
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Mistral 7B v0.3
36.1
Ministral 3 8B
28
Mistral 7B v0.3
30
Ministral 3 8B
69
Mistral 7B v0.3
68
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Mistral 7B v0.3
60.7
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Mistral 7B v0.3
43
Ministral 3 8B and Mistral 7B v0.3 are tied on overall score, so the right pick depends on which category matters most for your use case.
Mistral 7B v0.3 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 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.2 versus 13.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 43.3 versus 43. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B and Mistral 7B v0.3 are effectively tied for reasoning here, both landing at 36.1 on average.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 28.9 versus 26.4. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B and Mistral 7B v0.3 are effectively tied for multimodal and grounded tasks here, both landing at 32.4 on average.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 69 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B 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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