o1-pro vs Ministral 3 8B

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

o1-pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 45 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-pro's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 86 against 43.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2024, 86 to 32. Ministral 3 8B does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

o1-pro is also the more expensive model on tokens at $150.00 input / $600.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 8B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. o1-pro 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. o1-pro gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B.

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

o1-pro

o1-pro

39.7

Ministral 3 8B

28.9

40
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
50
BrowseComp
36
32
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

o1-pro

o1-pro

23

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

23
SWE-bench Pro
13
Coming soon
HumanEval
23
Coming soon
SWE-bench Verified
16
Coming soon
LiveCodeBench
15

Multimodal & Grounded

o1-pro

o1-pro

48.5

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

48
MMMU-Pro
27
49
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

o1-pro

o1-pro

56.2

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

54
LongBench v2
38
59
MRCRv2
41
Coming soon
SimpleQA
28
Coming soon
MuSR
26
Coming soon
BBH
63

Knowledge

o1-pro

o1-pro

69.9

Ministral 3 8B

28

79
GPQA
27
63
FrontierScience
32
Coming soon
MMLU
28
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
25
Coming soon
OpenBookQA
23
Coming soon
MMLU-Pro
52
Coming soon
HLE
3

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
IFEval
69

Multilingual

Ministral 3 8B

o1-pro

52

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

52
MMLU-ProX
61
Coming soon
MGSM
63

Mathematics

o1-pro

o1-pro

86

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

86
AIME 2024
32
Coming soon
AIME 2023
30
Coming soon
AIME 2025
33
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2023
26
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2024
28
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2025
27
Coming soon
BRUMO 2025
29
Coming soon
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o1-pro or Ministral 3 8B?

o1-pro is ahead overall, 45 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 86 and 32.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o1-pro or Ministral 3 8B?

o1-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.9 versus 28. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o1-pro or Ministral 3 8B?

o1-pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 23 versus 14.2. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o1-pro or Ministral 3 8B?

o1-pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o1-pro or Ministral 3 8B?

o1-pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 56.2 versus 36.1. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o1-pro or Ministral 3 8B?

o1-pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.7 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, o1-pro or Ministral 3 8B?

o1-pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.5 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o1-pro or Ministral 3 8B?

Ministral 3 8B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 52. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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