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Model comparison

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Ministral 3B

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 6.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek

50.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads 41.6 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 47% for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and 5.5% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4.1 FlashMinistral 3B
ProviderDeepSeekMistral AI
Noometry Index50.325.6
Released2026-09-092024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M128K
Max output393K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.04
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.04
Results tracked256

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 52.8 (#29), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena WebDev1620—
SciCode51.9%—
LMArena Coding1511—
ALE-Bench1,092—

Reasoning DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 46.2 (#39), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashMinistral 3B
DTBench89.9%51.7%
LMCA47%5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.01118.08
NYT Connections (extended)89.6%—
CritPt14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Surface Evolver Bench46.3%—

Math DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 48.4 (#52), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashMinistral 3B
ProofBench54%—
LMArena Math1493—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 41.6 (#97), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1505—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 55.5 (#29), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1452—
LMArena Chinese1506—
LMArena French1448—
LMArena Russian1473—
LMArena Spanish1499—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 77.6 (#24), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1475—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 45.2 (#46), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1476—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 65.8 (#43), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1465—
LMArena Creative Writing1436—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1540—
LMArena Multi-Turn1460—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than Ministral 3B?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 6.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash lists at $0.15 and $0.60.

Which has the bigger context window?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Ministral 3B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has 25 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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