# MiniCPM5-1B vs Mistral Medium 3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniCPM5-1B and Mistral Medium 3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minicpm5-1b-vs-mistral-medium-3
- Last updated: October 19, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: MiniCPM5-1B and Mistral Medium 3 share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- MiniCPM5-1B has the larger published context window at 131K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MiniCPM5-1B | Mistral Medium 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenBMB | Mistral |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 131K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 6.24 | 28.78 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 1 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.40 / $2.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Mistral Medium 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 25.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Mistral Medium 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 22.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 33.5% | 30.3% | MiniCPM5-1B |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: 46.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Mistral Medium 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 71.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: 42.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 10.2 (Estimated · #186/186)
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: 30.7 (Estimated · #154/186)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Mistral Medium 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 48.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 70.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 26.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 23.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 9.7 (#142/148)
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: 45.5 (#105/148)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Mistral Medium 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 46.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 12.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Mistral Medium 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 40.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 40.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 25.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | 91.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between MiniCPM5-1B and Mistral Medium 3?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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