Benchmark analysis of Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) by Mistral across 32 sourced tests on BenchLM.
According to BenchLM.ai, Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) ranks #108 out of 123 models with an overall score of 36/100. While not a frontier model, it offers specific advantages depending on the use case.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is a open weight model with a 128K token context window. It uses explicit chain-of-thought reasoning, which typically improves performance on math and complex reasoning tasks at the cost of higher latency and token usage.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) sits inside the Ministral 3 8B family alongside Ministral 3 8B.
Its strongest category is Instruction Following (#92), while its weakest is Multimodal & Grounded (#114). This performance profile makes it a well-rounded choice across a range of tasks.
Creator
Mistral
Source Type
Open WeightReasoning
ReasoningContext Window
128K
Overall Score
Arena Elo
1061
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) ranks #108 out of 123 models with an overall score of 36. It is created by Mistral and features a 128K context window.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) ranks #112 out of 123 models in knowledge and understanding benchmarks with an average score of 30. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) ranks #103 out of 123 models in coding and programming benchmarks with an average score of 15.2. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) ranks #99 out of 123 models in mathematics benchmarks with an average score of 47.8. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) ranks #107 out of 123 models in reasoning and logic benchmarks with an average score of 42.1. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) ranks #97 out of 123 models in agentic tool use and computer tasks benchmarks with an average score of 38.5. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) ranks #114 out of 123 models in multimodal and grounded tasks benchmarks with an average score of 33.4. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) ranks #92 out of 123 models in instruction following benchmarks with an average score of 70. There are stronger options in this category.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) ranks #92 out of 123 models in multilingual tasks benchmarks with an average score of 61.7. There are stronger options in this category.
Yes, Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is an open weight model created by Mistral, meaning it can be downloaded and run locally or fine-tuned for specific use cases.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) belongs to the Ministral 3 8B family. Related variants on BenchLM include Ministral 3 8B.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has a context window of 128K, which determines how much text it can process in a single interaction.
New model releases, benchmark scores, and leaderboard changes. Every Friday.
Free. Your signup is stored with a derived country code for compliance routing.