Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 8B and Mistral 8x7B v0.2 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.
Ministral 3 8B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Mistral 8x7B v0.2.
Treat this as a split decision. Ministral 3 8B makes more sense if multilingual is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window; Mistral 8x7B v0.2 is the better fit if knowledge is the priority.
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Mistral 8x7B v0.2
27.9
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Mistral 8x7B v0.2
13.3
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Mistral 8x7B v0.2
32.3
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Mistral 8x7B v0.2
35.2
Ministral 3 8B
28
Mistral 8x7B v0.2
28.9
Ministral 3 8B
69
Mistral 8x7B v0.2
67
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Mistral 8x7B v0.2
58.8
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Mistral 8x7B v0.2
42
Ministral 3 8B and Mistral 8x7B v0.2 are tied on overall score, so the right pick depends on which category matters most for your use case.
Mistral 8x7B v0.2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 28.9 versus 28. Inside this category, FrontierScience 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 13.3. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench 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 42. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 36.1 versus 35.2. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 28.9 versus 27.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 32.4 versus 32.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 69 versus 67. 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 58.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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