Ministral 3 14B vs Ministral 3 8B
Wins 6 of 7 areas
Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Facts · Images and charts · Following instructions
Wins 0 of 7 areas
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Ministral 3 14B is the stronger all-rounder.Ministral 3 8B is cheaper.
Scores updated · 34 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the seven areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- CodingWriting and fixing software20Ministral 3 14B2 of 3 tests · 1 tie
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up20Ministral 3 14B2 of 3 tests · 1 tie
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own10Ministral 3 14B1 of 3 tests · 2 ties
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking10Ministral 3 14B1 of 3 tests · 2 ties
- Images and chartsUnderstanding pictures, charts and video10Ministral 3 14B1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked10Ministral 3 14B1 of 1 test
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts00Even0 each · 1 tie
Images and charts, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Ministral 3 8B costs 25% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Ministral 3 14B pulls ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+10.1points ahead
- Command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench 2.1+5.6points ahead
- Harder college exam questions with imagesMMMU-Pro+3.8points ahead
Where Ministral 3 8B pulls ahead
No clear win on a test scored out of 100.
Every test, side by side
All 34 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingMinistral 3 14B
- Terminal-Bench 2.1Ministral 3 14B by 5.69.74.1+5.6
- SciCodeMinistral 3 14B by 3.123.820.7+3.1
- Terminal-Bench Hardtie4.54.5tie
AgentsMinistral 3 14B
- τ-Bench V3 · BankingMinistral 3 14B by 2.96.63.7+2.9
- GDPValtie00tie
- Terminal-Bench 4.0tie00tie
ReasoningMinistral 3 14B
- GPQA DiamondMinistral 3 14B by 10.157.247.1+10.1
- Humanity's Last Examtie4.64.3tie
- CritPttie00tie
FactsMinistral 3 14B
- Vectara HHEM hallucination ratelower is betterMinistral 3 14B by 2.319.421.7+2.3
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationMinistral 3 14B by 1.77.55.8+1.7
- AA-Omniscience · Accuracytie13.613tie
Images and chartsMinistral 3 14B
- MMMU-ProMinistral 3 14B by 3.849.846+3.8
Following instructionsMinistral 3 14B
- IFBenchMinistral 3 14B by 2.93229.1+2.9
Other results19 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- TriviaQA 5-shotMinistral 3 14B by 6.874.968.1+6.8
- AIME 2025Ministral 3 14B by 6.38578.7+6.3
- AGIEval 5-shotMinistral 3 14B by 5.764.859.1+5.7
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexMinistral 3 14B by 4.714.49.7+4.7
- Arena HardMinistral 3 14B by 4.255.150.9+4.2
- AIME 2024Ministral 3 14B by 3.889.886+3.8
- Multilingual MMLUMinistral 3 14B by 3.674.270.6+3.6
- MMLUMinistral 3 14B by 3.379.476.1+3.3
- LiveCodeBenchMinistral 3 14B by 364.661.6+3
- MATH Maj@1Ministral 3 14B by 2.890.487.6+2.8
- MMLU Redux 5-shotMinistral 3 14B by 2.78279.3+2.7
- AA-OmniscienceMinistral 3 14B by 2.5-66.4-69+2.5
- vectara_factual_consistencyMinistral 3 14B by 2.380.678.3+2.3
- WildBenchMinistral 3 14B by 1.768.566.8+1.7
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)tie27.226.6tie
- AA Intelligencetie65.5tie
- vectara_answer_ratetie99.699.1tie
- MM MTBenchtie8.58.1tie
- vectara_avg_summary_lengthtie135.8139.4tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Ministral 3 14B or Ministral 3 8B?
Ministral 3 14B wins six of the seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, reasoning, facts, images and charts and following instructions. Ministral 3 8B wins none, but costs 25% less. They are level on long documents.
Which is better for coding?
Ministral 3 14B. It wins 2 of the 3 coding tests both models report; Ministral 3 8B wins none, and 1 is a tie.
Which is cheaper?
Ministral 3 14B costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Ministral 3 8B costs $0.15 and $0.15. That makes Ministral 3 8B about 25% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 34 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 15 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 19 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.