Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs Ministral 8B

Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.3

Unranked Sparse

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.2 to 18.4.
  • Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep Think and Ministral 8B specifications
Gemini 3 Deep ThinkMinistral 8B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index58.328.2
Released2026-02-122024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked317

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMinistral 8B
LMArena Coding—1202

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMinistral 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—11.1%

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMinistral 8B
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
ARC-AGI-196%—
CritPt25.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1191
DTBench—45.7%

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMinistral 8B
LMArena Math—1188
MATH Level 5—14.9%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMinistral 8B
GPQA Diamond—27.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%
LMArena Expert—1170

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMinistral 8B
LMArena Non-English—1165
LMArena Chinese—1193
LMArena Russian—1195

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMinistral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following—1161

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMinistral 8B
LMArena Longer Query—1212

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkMinistral 8B
LMArena Text—1191
LMArena Creative Writing—1175
LMArena Multi-Turn—1166

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and Ministral 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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