Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Qwen3 235B 2507 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 37 to 32. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3 235B 2507's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 45.6 against 36.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LongBench v2, 52 to 38. Ministral 3 8B does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Pick Qwen3 235B 2507 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 8B only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority.
Qwen3 235B 2507
33.7
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
Qwen3 235B 2507
14.6
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
Qwen3 235B 2507
41.6
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
Qwen3 235B 2507
45.6
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
Qwen3 235B 2507
31.9
Ministral 3 8B
28
Qwen3 235B 2507
69
Ministral 3 8B
69
Qwen3 235B 2507
60.4
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
Qwen3 235B 2507
46.6
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
Qwen3 235B 2507 is ahead overall, 37 to 32. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LongBench v2, where the scores are 52 and 38.
Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 31.9 versus 28. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.6 versus 14.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 46.6 versus 43.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 45.6 versus 36.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 33.7 versus 28.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 41.6 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3 235B 2507 and Ministral 3 8B are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 69 on average.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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