Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Nova Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 38 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Nova Pro's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 46.3 against 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 51 to 38. Ministral 3 8B does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Pick Nova Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Nova Pro
33.3
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Nova Pro
17.2
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Nova Pro
41.1
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Nova Pro
46.3
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Nova Pro
34.2
Ministral 3 8B
28
Nova Pro
66
Ministral 3 8B
69
Nova Pro
60.4
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Nova Pro
48.6
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Nova Pro is ahead overall, 38 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 51 and 38.
Nova Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.2 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 17.2 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 48.6 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 46.3 versus 36.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 33.3 versus 28.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 41.1 versus 32.4. 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 66. 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 60.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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