Qwen2.5-1M vs Ministral 3 8B

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

Qwen2.5-1M is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen2.5-1M's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 80.9 against 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 84 to 28.

Qwen2.5-1M gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 8B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-1M 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

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

64.7

Ministral 3 8B

28.9

65
Terminal-Bench 2.0
26
72
BrowseComp
36
59
OSWorld-Verified
27

Coding

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

44.8

Ministral 3 8B

14.2

76
HumanEval
23
47
SWE-bench Verified
16
40
LiveCodeBench
15
49
SWE-bench Pro
13

Multimodal & Grounded

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

68.4

Ministral 3 8B

32.4

63
MMMU-Pro
27
75
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

80.9

Ministral 3 8B

36.1

81
SimpleQA
28
79
MuSR
26
82
BBH
63
82
LongBench v2
38
81
MRCRv2
41

Knowledge

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

60.4

Ministral 3 8B

28

84
MMLU
28
83
GPQA
27
81
SuperGPQA
25
79
OpenBookQA
23
74
MMLU-Pro
52
10
HLE
3
74
FrontierScience
32

Instruction Following

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

84

Ministral 3 8B

69

84
IFEval
69

Multilingual

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

80.4

Ministral 3 8B

61.7

81
MGSM
63
80
MMLU-ProX
61

Mathematics

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

83.6

Ministral 3 8B

43.3

85
AIME 2023
30
87
AIME 2024
32
86
AIME 2025
33
81
HMMT Feb 2023
26
83
HMMT Feb 2024
28
82
HMMT Feb 2025
27
84
BRUMO 2025
29
83
MATH-500
60

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 8B?

Qwen2.5-1M is ahead overall, 66 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 84 and 28.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 8B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 8B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.8 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 8B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.6 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 8B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 36.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 8B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.7 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, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 8B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.4 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 8B?

Qwen2.5-1M 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, Qwen2.5-1M or Ministral 3 8B?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.4 versus 61.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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