Nemotron 3 Super 100B vs Ministral 3 8B

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

Nemotron 3 Super 100B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 59 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Super 100B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 69.5 against 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 75 to 38.

Nemotron 3 Super 100B gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Super 100B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

56.6

Ministral 3 8B

28.9

56
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
61
BrowseComp
36
54
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

41.3

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

57
HumanEval
23
44
SWE-bench Verified
16
38
LiveCodeBench
15
44
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

60.4

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

55
MMMU-Pro
27
67
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

69.5

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

62
SimpleQA
28
60
MuSR
26
83
BBH
63
75
LongBench v2
38
75
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

52.8

Ministral 3 8B

28

65
MMLU
28
64
GPQA
27
62
SuperGPQA
25
60
OpenBookQA
23
72
MMLU-Pro
52
13
HLE
3
63
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

84

Ministral 3 8B

69

84
IFEval
69

Multilingual

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

79.5

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

84
MGSM
63
77
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

Nemotron 3 Super 100B

72.6

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

65
AIME 2023
30
67
AIME 2024
32
66
AIME 2025
33
61
HMMT Feb 2023
26
63
HMMT Feb 2024
28
62
HMMT Feb 2025
27
64
BRUMO 2025
29
83
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B is ahead overall, 59 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 75 and 38.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.8 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.3 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.5 versus 36.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.6 versus 28.9. 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, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 69. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Nemotron 3 Super 100B or Ministral 3 8B?

Nemotron 3 Super 100B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.5 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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